Posts Tagged: children’s literature

The diversity within children’s literature should be reflective of the diversity of those who read it. As a rough estimation, around 14% of the world’s population is recorded as white. From this arises the question of why only 16% of children’s books published in 2015 in the USA, were about children of colour. When in fact children of colour make up the largest majority of the global population. Similarly, females are heavily underrepresented in children’s fiction, only making up 38.5% of… Read more