Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The ALSC had been considering whether it should strip Wilder's name from the award since February and announced at the time that the author's legacy 'may no longer be consistent with the intention of the award named for her.' And multiple characters in the Little House series intone that 'the only good Indian is a dead Indian.'

Only Indians lived there.' That description was changed in later editions of the book. In 1935's Little House on the Prairie, for example, Wilder described one setting as a place where 'there were no people. While many of the Little House books became widely read, critics said her work included many stereotypical and reductive depictions of Native Americans and people of color. The Little House series was based on Wilder's own life and told the story of the Ingalls family as it moved around the Great Plains in the 19th century. that have had a big impact on children's literature. Wilder, who wrote the Little House book series, was the first recipient of the award, which was established in 1954 and intended to honor books published in the U.S. The Association for Library Service to Children says the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award will now be known as the Children's Literature Legacy Award. The white clapboard farmhouse where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote many of the books in her Little House on the Prairie novels still stands in Mansfield, Mo.Ī division of the American Library Association voted unanimously Saturday to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's literature award over concerns about how the author referred to Native Americans and blacks.

Little House On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder