<div dir="ltr">I do not have specific resources to share, but I'd like to share this quote from a Washington Post article about Laura Ingals Wilder:<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"Whether we love Wilder or hate her, we should know her. For decades, her legacy has been awash in sentimentality, but every American — including the children who read her books — should learn the harsh history behind her work. Vividly, unforgettably, it still tells truths about white settlement, homesteading and the violent appropriation of Indian land and culture."</div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/yes-little-house-on-the-prairie-is-racially-insensitive--but-we-should-still-read-it/2018/03/12/8e021422-1e40-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/yes-little-house-on-the-prairie-is-racially-insensitive--but-we-should-still-read-it/2018/03/12/8e021422-1e40-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html</a> </div><div><br></div></blockquote>I think we should ecouragae teachers to not shy away from contorversial authors, but look at their contributions to the literary world as a whole body of work, and not judge them on biases that they may or may not hold, if they were alive today.<div><br></div><div>I also agree that generalities do not help, and it is better to make statements like "The author held views that are considered racist, and this did/did not influence this work" "Or at the time this was written, the author was part of a society that held racist beliefs". It sure it a challenging subject, but one met best, I feel, head on and with sensitivity. </div><div><br></div><div><div><i><font face="georgia, serif">Mrs. Karen Kruckenberg, MS Ed. TS, </font></i><i><font face="georgia, serif">LIS Endorsed</font></i><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">Harvard High School Library Media Center Director </font></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">NHS Co-Advisor</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">815-943-6461 Ext. 2299<br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://harcohilmc.weebly.com/" target="_blank">https://harcohilmc.weebly.com/</a><br></font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="outline:0px"><font color="#1b1b1b" size="2"><i>"</i></font></span><font color="#1b1b1b"><i>The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." ~Vince Lombardi</i></font></font></div><div><font color="#1b1b1b" face="georgia, serif"><i>“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” </i></font><i style="color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:georgia,serif">― C.S. 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It is actually part of the problem of incivility that society is experiencing now.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:53 AM Nichole Folkman via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm glad you bring this up. I do not have any specific resources to offer, but I do think it's really important to show authors as humans who have faults and are often problematic. Children are good at sitting with difficulties like understanding that someone can be a great writer and a bad person. Kate Messner has been talking about similar issues on her Twitter lately.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:21 PM John Heideman via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I don't think an author's lifestyle or political views should matter. The content of the book should matter.If we censure every author whose views or lifestyle we disagree with we won't have many books in our collection.<div>Mr. Heideman ( Children's Librarian North Chicago Public Library)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:49 PM Claire Greene via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, everyone!<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to develop a playbook for teachers in my school to use to address content written by problematic authors. </div><div><br></div><div>My number one priority is finding substantive and meaningful ways to represent diverse perspectives in the curriculum, but my question is about addressing the use of works by problematic authors that are already written into the curriculum. </div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, our 6th grade LA curriculum includes work by Roald Dahl, who many of you will be aware was involved in propagating many disturbing racist ideas. 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