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[quote=Anonymous]Laura’s books are mostly non-fiction— accounting events as she experienced & remembered them (with some changes to things like the timeline, I realize). So should she have lied or omitted the parts about some townspeople hating “Indians” and her mother fearing them? Would it be better to leave out the part with everyone in blackface & pretend it never happened? These were HER experiences. It would truly be whitewashing history for her to have left out the ugly parts & prevailing white attitudes & actions of the time. I read all these books to my kids & explained the historical context, that some things are complicated, and that some behavior in the book is of course very wrong. I realize people aren’t trying to ban the book, but the award renaming implies Wilder & her books are are, which is what I’m addressing here. [/quote]
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