Where’s The Diversity? Children’s Books Get An “F”

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has been tracking diversity in children’s books in America. “Of the 5,000 children’s books published in 2002, the center looked at 3,150. Of those, 235 were by and/or about African-Americans, 94 by and/or about Latinos, 91 by and/or about Asian/Pacific Americans and 64 by and/or about American Indians. While those numbers are really shockingly low, they are still higher than they were 15 years ago. In 1985, the center found that 18 books of the 2,500 published that year were created by African-Americans.”