How books about diverse women are finding a wider audience.
"But these women did something they really believed in, and in that changed the world and shifted a little bit of the world’s view of what women could do.”Kate Schatz was thinking of her 2-year-old daughter, Ivy, when she wrote her first children’s book.
Kathleen T. Horning, director of the center, has been tracking these statistics since 1985 and said that in the last two years, there have been “small, but steady gains” — about 5 percent — in both African-American and Latino books. There has been a small decrease in books by and about Native Americans.
Hannah Ehrlich, director of marketing and publicity of Lee & Low Books, said that while the company used to just focus on racial diversity, they now aim to include LGBTQ stories and characters with disabilities. She added that she feels like a lot of diverse biography books geared toward young people that already exist are pigeonholed to cover certain topics.
“As someone with influence on what kinds of books are being published in the illustrated nonfiction space, I see it as my responsibility to do what I can to uplift and offer a platform to the voices and stories of historically underrepresented people,” Ketchum said.
Schatz said the fact that there aren’t too many single subject books on women of color for young readers surprises her, but she hopes the continued demand leads to more.
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