Providing opportunities and grants and opportunities for POC and other diverse groups to access writing programs, publishing industry etc is needed because children need to see themselves and all of their experiences represented in books. The Diversity Gap had the privilege of being featured on the See Beautiful Blog as part of their grant-making process. And if any other editors like RDS, at other publishing houses, can weigh in anonymously on their own submissions, that would be great. My next question would be are we not educating (Native American specifically) these children well enough, are we not telling them that they have a voice and that their voices matter well enough? It has an Asian author, hearing impaired European illustrator, and characters that come from all over the world. And in 2016, the number jumped to 28%. 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Jalissa, thank you for the response, but that data is not what I’m asking. In my experience the imbalance has been due to the fact that there are significantly fewer submissions by own-voices authors, though thankfully we have been seeing more and more manuscripts by people of color on submission recently. It seems like the message of this infographic and blog post is that there will never be equity in children’s publishing until and unless there is authorship on a de facto numerus clausus basis.That is, representation of authorship of children’s/YA books in more or less exact proportion to the population percentage of American whites, African-Americans, Latinx, Caribbean, East Asian, South Asian, Muslim North African, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, each letter of LBTQIA+, gender, etc. I will try again now. Thank you. Jul 2, 2016 - Lee & Low Books analyses the newest statistics about the Diversity Gap in Children’s Book Publishing. March, 2015 ; In 2014, there were 393 books published about people of color. The Diversity Gap in Children’s Book Publishing, 2018. Access and opportunity are a huge part of the conversation, and if there are significantly fewer submissions by creators of color, there could possibly be a systemic issue behind that. The Diversity Gap in Children’s Book Publishing, 2018 May 10, 2018 Jalissa 135 Comments In February, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) released its statistics on the number of children’s books by and about people of color published in 2017. I think that self-publishing is one way to get more diversity into children's literature. To continue, please log in or create an account. You will want to add this historical fiction written for middle grade readers. The Diversity Gap: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, children’s book publishing has not kept pace. I’m a long-time children’s book editor, and while of course I can’t speak to the whole industry, in my experience and that of the other editors I know personally, there’s never been an instance of choosing a white author’s story about a person of color over a story actually written by a person of color, which is what the language above implies. In 2017, 1.98% of children’s book creators were British people of colour and they created 1.58% of unique titles. The Diversity Gap in Children’s Publishing, 2015. Over the course of the next two years, I, Bethaney, will be listening to stories of the people most impacted by diversity… Christy Hale, John Coy, & Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen at One Potato… Ten. CCBC has been tracking for years the many books its gets where main characters are non-white but not specific to an ethnic/racial group, but now elects NOT to include in their statistics: "Similarly we were once likely to count a book with a brown-skinned child, most often as African American, whereas now we track books with brown-skinned characters in which there are no apparent clues of the characters' specific race or ethnicity, but we do not count them as part of these statistics."