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You know what there aren't a lot of? Children's book authors who aren't white.

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Naomi K
Mar 24, 2014
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Which is something that I didn't really know.

But a few tweets from Cindy Pon led me to this University of Wisconsin website which has pretty detailed statistics on this. Although for some reason it doesn't provide percentages, so let me give them below:

Percentage of the 3,200 children's books that were published in 2013 and were part of their study...

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