re: #225 Chrysicat

Well, we sure shouldn’t be subjecting third- and fourth-graders to them anymore; that’s too young to totally grasp how this is no longer acceptable. Time to limit Little House access to people old enough to drive?

I don’t agree. You’re throwing out too important a baby with the bath water (like banning the entire corpus of Mary Poppins because of one (horribly stereotyped) chapter.

Also, I read those books at about that age, and wasn’t moved to think the Indians in the book had anything to do with anyone living. I was more impressed by the black doctor — at about eight years old (and in my surroundings), I had never seen one, nor realized that there was anything more than whites and Indians in the history of the western frontier.