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Horning, Debbie Reese, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Madeline Tyner, with statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Created in consultation with Edith Campbell, Molly Beth Griffin, K. The Reflecting Realities research project also explains that although 33.5% of the UK's primary school population in 2019 were of minority ethnic origins, only 5% of children’s books had an ethnic minority main character.Īn infographic about children's books in the USA, Diversity in Children’s Books 2018, created by Sarah Park Dahlen and David Huyck with statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that children's books are more likely to feature animal or non-human characters than they are people of colour. And not only are black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) authors and illustrators underrepresented in the children’s book market, but so are BAME kids themselves – only 7% of the children’s books published in the UK in the last three years feature characters of colour, though there has been a year-on-year rise in representation in children's literature. More children’s books are being sold in the UK than ever before – but how accurately do they represent the society we all live in?Īccording to research from the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and the literacy charity BookTrust, fewer than 2% of children’s book creators are British people of colour.