Read CCBC librarian Madeline Tyner’s November 2018 article in Horn Book Magazine on the CCBC’s documentation of LGBTQ+ books.
On Books and Publishing
Occasional thoughts from CCBC librarians on children’s and young adult literature, publishing, and our work documenting diversity in books we receive.
A Closer Look at 2017 Latinx #OwnVoices Books
With the ever-growing call for #OwnVoices books in youth publishing, we delved deeper into the CCBC’s 2017 diversity stats, with a particular focus on 2017 #OwnVoices books.
A Closer Look at 2017 African/African American #OwnVoices Books
With the ever-growing call for #OwnVoices books in youth publishing, we delved deeper into the CCBC’s 2017 diversity stats, with a particular focus on #OwnVoices books. In this post, we examine the African/African American #OwnVoices books and consider creator roles, book type, and countries and cultures that are represented.
CCBC 2017 Statistics on LGBTQ+ Literature for Children & Teens
In 2017 we expanded our CCBC diversity statistics to include books with LGBTQ+ content and/or characters, and the results have been both fascinating and eye-opening.
A Preponderance of Pink
Read Horn Book Magazine’s interview with CCBC director Kathleen T. Horning in March, 2018, about representation of gender in picture books.
Observations on Publishing in 2017
Diversity and representation are on the minds of many in publishing for youth, and one of the things that stood out for us about 2017 books, especially picture books, was the presence of the brown-skinned child.
The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics
Read Horn Book Magazine’s March, 2017, interview with CCBC director Kathleen T. Horning about the CCBC’s diversity statistics.
The #OwnVoices Gap in African American Children’s Books
Since 1985, the CCBC has been keeping statistics on the number of children’s books by and about African Americans. For the first two years, the numbers were dismal (just 18 books out of 2,500 published in 1985 and again in 1986). USA Today did a story about it that included one of their handy visuals to illustrate the problem.
Observations on Publishing in 2016
Everything we do at the CCBC begins and ends with the books themselves. We examine every one of the hundreds of titles that come into the library each year, and subsequently read a number of them.
CCBC Multicultural Statistics for 2016
The CCBC has been documenting the number of books published by and about people of color and First/Native Nations book creators in various ways for 32 years.