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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a heads up that there is some racist stuff in the Little House on the Prairie books. [/quote]
Would you and the misogyny PP rather put your children into bubbles than confront hard topics and help them learn our history?  It's a version of snowplowing.  If children's literature is not an appropriate medium for parents to help kids work through these questions, what is? [/quote]

Except these stories aren't about "hard topics".  they just involve casual racism, like calling Chinese people "ch!nks" and regulating women to the kitchen and childcare while the men go out and get jobs.  Examining the cultural lens that they were written through is hardly the same thing as censorship.  I don't think Boxcar Children should be banned.  I don't think any book should be banned.  But I DO think there is a plethora of excellent writing out that that blows Boxcar Children out of the water.  We read it because it was put in front of us. Some people still enjoy it.  My DD liked it!  But I did have to pause and take issue with how the girls were in charge of home and kitchen while the boys built things etc.  I talked about how times were different then, and how she could do anything Henry would do.  We also talked about what I liked about the book.  The children are all kind to each other, and look out for the needs of the group at every opportunity.  I still think there is some wonderful children's literature out there that is NOT Boxcar Children.

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