![]() ![]() ALA was careful to note that renaming the award was not an attempt to “censor, limit, or deter access to Wilder’s books and materials.”Īndy Spinks didn’t consider it to be censorship when he weeded Wilder’s series out of his collection at Campbell High School in Smyrna, GA, a suburban school about 20 minutes outside of Atlanta with a student body that’s 20 percent white. Just two years ago, the American Library Association (ALA) decided to drop Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from its children’s literature award, citing her work’s “dated cultural attitudes toward Indigenous people and people of color.” The phrase “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” shows up multiple times in Little House on the Prairie. ![]() But today, some media specialists are questioning the proper place for these and other novels. Students have been reading To Kill a Mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the “Little House” series for generations, and for many years, having these “classics” available in school libraries was a given. Figuring out to how to handle classics that critics say haven’t aged well can be tough for librarians charged with putting together school collections. ![]()
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