Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from award

(KFDA/RNN) In a March Washington Post piece, Caroline Fraser, a biographer of “Little House on the Prairie” author Laura Ingalls Wilder, wrote that “her work and its reception are more complicated than we may once have believed, shedding light on the myths that white Americans have woven about the past.”
Fraser was responding to news that the American Library Service to Children (part of the American Library Association) was considering removing Wilder’s name from a children’s literature award. This weekend, it did that, recasting the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. Continued