How the Little House gave ground: the beginnings of multiculturalism in a new, black children's literature

Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House in the Big Woods" was the most important American children's book of the first half of the twentieth century, and Mildred Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" was arguably the most important children's book of the century's second half. Bader discusses the movement to develop an interracial canon of books for children.