Women of color alone penned almost a quarter of them. That’s even though authors of color make up just 10% of U.S. authors and write less than 5% of the most popular books in the U.S.

When examining the diversity seen in children’s books, the CCBC team focuses on four main “identifiers”: race and ethnicity, religion, disabilities, and LGBTQ+, Schmidt said.

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two new children's books are hitting the shelves, hoping to fill gaps in the marketplace and teach kids to embrace everyone's diverse cultures. One book is written by a ...

This post was updated April 30 at 7:42 p.m. MiJa Books is changing the landscape of children’s literature, one story at a time. The online bookstore, founded by alumnus Stephanie Reed and her ...

On this episode of Urban Outlook, host April Eaton is joined by children's book author and early childhood educator, Renetta Daniels, to discuss how representation matters in children's books.

Learn with your kids. Do the work. It’s always worth it. With this in mind—and with the start of Black History Month—we’re sharing 40+ books featuring Black heroes that every kid should read.

Many years ago, in a gray wooden house in Maine, there was a little girl who loved to curl up on the living room couch and ...

I spent the day at “Books of Wonder” earlier this spring to ask kids what makes the best children’s book. Iago and Nico Akerman, both 11, told me the books they liked reading in school were ...

Children love stories about enchanted lands full of magical beings. Nothing transports us to enchanted lands quite as powerfully as music does. Here’s a list of 10 recent children’s picture books that ...