The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to strip the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a popular children’s book award, months after a task force set out to consider the long-running scholarly discussion around “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments” in the author’s work.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books have made “a significant and lasting contribution to children’s literature.” It will now be called The Children’s Literature Legacy Award.
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