EDUC American Library Association removes Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from children's literature award

[Plain Jane]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/laura-ingalls-wilder-award-renamed-1.4721225

American Library Association removes Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from children's literature award​

Wilder Medal now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award​

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 25, 2018 3:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 26, 2018

On the Banks of Plum Creek is the fourth of nine books in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, a collection of autobiographical children's novels. (HarperCollins)

A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's book award over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.

The Association for Library Service to Children's board made the unanimous decision Saturday at a meeting in New Orleans. The name has been changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

The association says the work of Wilder — best known for her Little House on the Prairie novels — "includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values."

The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC says Wilder's work continues to be published and read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced."

The American Library Association is based in Chicago.

 

[bracketquant]

Nellie Oleson must be behind this.

 

[EE80]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/laura-ingalls-wilder-award-renamed-1.4721225

American Library Association removes Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from children's literature award​

Wilder Medal now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award​

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 25, 2018 3:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 26, 2018

On the Banks of Plum Creek is the fourth of nine books in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, a collection of autobiographical children's novels. (HarperCollins)

A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major children's book award over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.

The Association for Library Service to Children's board made the unanimous decision Saturday at a meeting in New Orleans. The name has been changed to the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

The association says the work of Wilder — best known for her Little House on the Prairie novels — "includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values."

The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC says Wilder's work continues to be published and read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced."

The American Library Association is based in Chicago.

That is BS!!! One of the Best series of books ever! SMH

 

[Signwatcher]

Assholes abound. Wonder how these Nazis will be remembered by history. They won't be there to control the narrative. Can't happen soon enough

 

[Plain Jane]

Children's Literature Legacy Award - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Children's Literature Legacy Award​

The Children's Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal or Wilder Award) is a prize awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to writers or illustrators of children's books published in the United States who have, over a period of years, made substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature.[1] The bronze medal prize was originally named after its first winner, twentieth-century American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, before being renamed in 2018.[1]

Children's Literature Legacy Award
Awarded for	"substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature"
Country	United States
Presented by	Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association
First award	1954
Website	ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/clla/about

Originally, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal was awarded every five years, awarding six prizes between 1955 and 1980. From 1980 to 2001 it was awarded every three years, awarding seven prizes. From 2001 to 2015 it was awarded every two years. It is now awarded annually.[2] The most recent author to receive the award was Candace Fleming in 2026.[3]

 

[Dollar Short]

The erasure of Wilder is similar to the trashing of John Campbell by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). Their best new writer award was named after Campbell until it was determined by modern woke SFWA members that Campbell was 'problematic'.

It can easily be argued that classic science fiction would not exist without Campbell. He served as editor of Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (originally titled Astounding Science Fiction) from 1937-1971. He developed the careers of many of the greatest names in SF -- Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Hal Clement, Ben Bova, Theodore Sturgeon, Frank Herbert, and many, many others.

The American Library Association has been controlled by Communists for a long-time, so in some ways it is surprising that Wilder's name on their award made it this far.

 

[Mzkitty]

My favorite books as a child.

 

[Rucus Sunday]

My first grade teacher read several of the books to the class. We were all spellbound. She also read us Charlotte's Web, my sentimental favorite of all time.

 

[Plain Jane]

I still have the full set of Little House books but I haven't read them in a long time. I might take the time to read them again because this has happened.

 

[bw]

Oh gosh, she's Literally Hitler!

 

[wobble]

Super dumb.

 

[homecanner1]

They did it in 2018. Apparently not satisfied they dug her up and slayed her again

Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from prestigious award over 'dated cultural attitudes'

"Her works reflect dated cultural attitudes toward Indigenous people and people of color," the association that issues the award said.

www.nbcnews.com

ALA had their annual convention last week and bus trips down to Obama library for tours. They must have ran out of agenda items to attack this year

 

[Cardinal]

I am SO glad I'm retired from that profession.

 

[Doc1]

It strikes me that virtually anything academic having to to do with education, literature or language is peopled by communists of one stripe or another.

Best
Doc

 

[oops]

Wellll…between lack of common sense…decent curriculum…n incompetent teachin…they’ve pretty well fulfilled the illiterate n uneducated goal…they’ve destroyed education…like they’ve tried to destroy everything else…

 

[energy_wave]

What ever people wrote about in the past was a reflection on their society at that time. And she's a moral Christian white girl as well. This has Communism written all over it.

 

[subnet]

Commies love to ignore and or re-write history.

 

[Southside]

What ever people wrote about in the past was a reflection on their society at that time. And she's a moral Christian white girl as well. This has Communism written all over it.

A lot of that going around.
Sadly.

 

[SuElPo]

I am 73, and I have the set. I also need to read them again.
Susan

 

[night driver]

And somewhere there is a grave with an odd rumbling sound as Sam Clemens spins at around 55 or 65 RPM.

 

[smokin]

What is scary about this situation is that these folks feel they are right in doing this. Erasing history one inch at a time but never realizing the implications for future generations.

 

[wobble]

It strikes me that virtually anything academic having to to do with education, literature or language is peopled by communists of one stripe or another.

Best
Doc

I was loved and respected by the students, parents, and admins, but I resigned in 93 because I was seeing the woke waves forming before the coined term came around, and the wave was already becoming a tsunami headed for the western shores by 1993.
I first noticed things were very "not right" in the educational institution around 1988, but I thought what I was witnessing and experiencing was limited to the education culture and practices in my region at that time. I was not seeing the tsunami in the beginning at all.

 

[Rucus Sunday]

They can award the next medal to Timmy's Got Two Daddies

 

[Plain Jane]

They did it in 2018. Apparently not satisfied they dug her up and slayed her again

I think I figured it out. There is a remake of the Little House On The Prairie film being advertised on YouTube. They needed to make sure that people don't start buying the books.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Always about the darkies ...

 

[Countrymouse]

What is scary about this situation is that these folks feel they are right in doing this. Erasing history one inch at a time but never realizing the implications for future generations.

Laura‘s ‘sin’ was referring to Indian babies as papooses and Indian women as squaws. In another book, when the family was all down with malaria, she describes a Doctor who came in to care for them as “very black.” Those are the “objectionable” phrases.

 

[Countrymouse]

I was loved and respected by the students, parents, and admins, but I resigned in 93 because I was seeing the woke waves forming before the coined term came around, and the wave was already becoming a tsunami headed for the western shores by 1993.
I first noticed things were very "not right" in the educational institution around 1988, but I thought what I was witnessing and experiencing was limited to the education culture and practices in my region at that time. I was not seeing the tsunami in the beginning at all.

I never realized you were a teacher as well wobble! Did you teach in schools in the same county in which you and I live? What I saw happen in my school in the late 80s early 90s was our instructional lead teacher went through our classrooms and confiscated every book that showed men and women in, to use her words, “traditional male female roles“. She did not like the fact that our Reader’s Digest skill builder readers showed women at home being housewives and mothers and raising their children and dads out in the work world. She wanted to see mothers out working as firefighters and police men and astronauts and so forth– we can’t have any of those old-fashioned roles of a mother being just a mother or just a housewife. When she came to my room, I asked her to give me the books because I said I wanted them just for my own personal use at home, she had already thrown most of them away, but I managed to salvage about half a dozen. We used them in my homeschool.

 

[wobble]

I never realized you were a teacher as well wobble! Did you teach in schools in the same county in which you and I live? What I saw happen in my school in the late 80s early 90s was our instructional lead teacher went through our classrooms and confiscated every book that showed men and women in, to use her words, “traditional male female roles“. She did not like the fact that our Reader’s Digest skill builder readers showed women at home being housewives and mothers and raising their children and dads out in the work world. She wanted to see mothers out working as firefighters and police men and astronauts and so forth– we can’t have any of those old-fashioned roles of a mother being just a mother or just a housewife. When she came to my room, I asked her to give me the books because I said I wanted them just for my own personal use at home, she had already thrown most of them away, but I managed to salvage about half a dozen. We used them in my homeschool.

A different county it was….

I was just beginning to see a heavy liability curtain being pulled down over the teachers, professors, instructors, etc, that was going to be disabling the pathways and courtesies to the architecture of teaching and learning, and replacing it with pure indoctrination brain washing, and some other stuff…lol.
I'm glad I did.

 

[Dobbin]

The Victors get to write the history books.

No, correction. The Victors get to remember the history they deem "appropriate."

That is if they have the audacity to not remember TRUTH.

Those who don't remember the past - what was that ending again?

I forget...

Oh yeah. Those mistakes....We're discussing the imposition of spurious "woke" values on a less than convenient truth.

George Santayana must be laughing...

Dobbin

 

[BUBBAHOTEPT]

What is scary about this situation is that these folks feel they are right in doing this.

Preach…
That's exactly who they are and why the truly stupid are so dangerous. They will all feel justified and righteous sending us to the Democrat Underground Sugar Mines, for our own good of course…

I enjoyed the series on tv and my daughter read all the books. These people will never stop…

 

[Dobbin]

Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association

liwlra.org

Dues $30 per year.

Face it, "public" libraries are passe now. The Internet has killed them. Now a public library is simply a "mouthpiece" for whatever politics happens to be in charge at that moment.

Which is the way it has always been actually. Andrew Carnegie endowed MANY public libraries in his day because he saw the shortcomings in government management of ANYTHING - and attempted to do something about a perceived fail.

But Andrew isn't here anymore. His legacy may live on, but now it is controlled by the same forces that brought it into being - and they're doing what they can to disable it.

(Google AI) The phrase "Woke Carnegie Endowments" usually refers to recent political controversies over the foreign policy stances of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank, or relates to conservative legislative efforts targeting progressive university endowments. [1, 2]
1. The Think Tank (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a nonpartisan global foreign policy institution established in 1910. Recently, the organization has faced criticism from conservative and pro-defense commentators over specific essays published by its scholars. For example, some critics have argued that the institution lends its institutional weight to anti-American sentiments, citing specific articles analyzing the U.S. role in the Middle East and global affairs. Despite these critiques, the organization's stated mission is to advance international cooperation and active global engagement. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
2. The Woke Endowment Security Tax (WEST) Act
The phrase also echoes conservative legislation introduced by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), specifically the "Woke Endowment Security Tax (WEST) Act". This legislation was introduced in response to perceived progressive policies, "woke" ideology, and the handling of campus protests regarding Israel and Jewish students at elite colleges. The bill sought to apply a 6% excise tax on the massive, historically tax-free endowments of select elite American universities

Dobbin

 

[Bubble Head]

There is no reason for Public Libraries other than a place for meetings. The Internet has replaced them. I would like to see them removed from are tax support.

 

[bracketquant]

There is no reason for Public Libraries other than a place for meetings. The Internet has replaced them. I would like to see them removed from are tax support.

The public libraries around here, each have dozens of internet terminals for the people who cannot afford a computer and the internet at home. The local library is quasi-public, independently managed by a board of directors, but the city taxpayers fund all salaries.

Books are slowly disappearing. DVDs (mostly movies and TV series) have replaced them.

I've heard that over 50% of high school students never read another book after graduation.

Like the Y and the Boys and Girls Club, the library has a teen space, where during the school year, all of these places are basically free baby sitting, between the time when school gets out and parents get out of work to pick up their children.

 

[thompson]

Andrew Carnegie endowed MANY public libraries in his day because he saw the shortcomings in government management of ANYTHING - and attempted to do something about a perceived fail.

My lifelong love of reading real books was born in an Andrew Carnegie library. My grandparent's small town had one, and I spent a big portion of my summers at their place, up until I graduated from high school. Grandma started taking me there when I was quite young and later I'd walk to and from the library carrying back a big armful of books. There were more times than not I made many multiple weekly visits there during my summer stay. Happy memories!

 

[Plain Jane]

My introduction to the Little House books was through the elementary school library. And they carried the "We Were There" series which were historical novels. My parents started to take us to the public library when I was in upper elementary. Great times!

 

[Kathy in FL]

What in the absolute F?!!!!

I taught my kids for almost an entire year just with her books. They excelled that year so much that the people I had testing my kids were floored with their year over year advancement. There are 13 years difference between my oldest and youngest. My oldest was in advanced/IB type classes and my youngest was just starting "school" and all the ones in between and they all benefitted and enjoyed the activities just adjusting for the age/grade each was in.

Someone, probably several someones, need their heads examined. Assuming they can be pulled out of their arse. This is all because of the reboot that is being done on the tv series which only loosely follows the books. More of an "inspired by" that a faithful reproduction of the books.

And then there are the actual biographies of Ms. Wilder and her family.

This is a travesty.

 

[Elza]

It strikes me that virtually anything academic having to to do with education, literature or language is peopled by communists of one stripe or another.

Best
Doc

Has been for a VERY long time. They are getting more prominent and powerful as their numbers increase but they've always been around.

 

[beaglemama]

There is no reason for Public Libraries other than a place for meetings. The Internet has replaced them. I would like to see them removed from are tax support.

I completely disagree. My local library is great. They have programs for kids. It's also great for people to check out and read books - especially for kids. The library also has audiobooks and dvds. A lot of time you have to pay for streaming services or to get stuff online - you don't have to pay to use the library.

 

[llknp]

A couple of points - 1. This article is from 2018. 2. The books are still available in most public libraries as well as for sale on a variety of platforms. 3. The books represent historically accurate values of the times. 4. No matter how hard you try, you cannot erase history. Just more smoke and mirrors to confuse, irritate and amuse the masses. Eyes open!!! Guns up!!!!

 

[Countrymouse]

Next step--libraries will DISCARD the Little House books.......