Laura Ingalls Wilder Award name change

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Award name change

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1Cynfelyn
Jun 28, 2018, 4:42 am

"On Saturday afternoon, June 23, 2018, the executive board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) voted to change the name of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. The change took place immediately. It is now the Children's Literature Legacy Award."

American Indians in Children's Literature (blog), 2018-06-27
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-changethenam...

"The American Library Association is dropping Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a prestigious children’s literature award in order to distance the honor from what it described as culturally insensitive portrayals in her books."

New York Times, 2018-06-26
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/books/laura-ingalls-wilder-book-award.html