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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't believe that renaming the award is part of a slippery slope.  Other companies have handled similar situations without editing the work.

This is the disclaimer that Warner Bros puts before old Tom and Jerry cartoons.  Seems like it would work in a lot of instances:

“Tom & Jerry” shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While not representing the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these shorts are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.[/quote]

OP here, I would have been fine with something like this and keeping the name the same.

[b]Or stopping the award, leaving those past awards with her name and beginning a new award with the new name, starting with the 2018 winner.[/b][/quote]

This is what they decided to do. There was a final 2017 recipient of the Wilder medal, and first 2018 recipient of the Children's Literature Legacy Award. It's no longer a medal, no longer named for Wilder, and it has different criteria than the old award.[/quote]

No, that is not what they did.

Go to the ALA website.

All of the names have been changed starting with the first one awarded to Laura Ingalls Wilder through the 2018 winner.

There is an attachment pdf, for now, that has the list under Wilder Award but the official website has changed the name.

Their side links have not yet been changed, but ai am sure they will be in a day or two.[/quote]

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