I Am Sure Most Of Us,

will of heard on the Little Prairie books,

 by Laura Ingalls Wilder, they were a romanticised version of her childhood memories, written for children, as with many people, the good times stand out the most when recalls their childhood, the real hardships associated with pioneer living were glossed over, considered too harsh for young readers, or possibly too ordinary to stand out in Wilder's mind. The reality was that getting by was no picnic for settlers of the American heartland, pioneer food was often stodgy, plain, or altogether absent. While Laura’s family is concerned throughout the book with packing away stores to make it through harsh winters, Wilder tends to gloss over the risk of famine or even death. In summertime or fall, pioneers might feast on bear meat (Laura’s favourite), buffalo, venison, elk, and antelope, unconstrained by the big game laws of the Old World. But in winter, when nothing grew or could be hunted, pioneers were vulnerable,

families like the Ingalls family had it especially tough, as historian Erin E. Pedigo observes, Pa’s “dreams of wide open space with few neighbours and accumulated wealth from working the land were far bigger than his abilities,” and his family paid the price, out on the open frontier, or deep in the woods, there was no market economy or community to fall back on during difficult months,

but alas all of this now counts for nothing, as her books have been banned, the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, says it voted Saturday to strip Wilder’s name from the award, it is not the only literary classic to be banned recently, in 2017, a school district in Mississippi decided to pull Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from its curriculum, as indeed was Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ banned in a Philadelphia high school in 2015, so much for books and literature, well we must not offend the snowflakes out there that want to burn books, let me see who in history does this act remind me of?