Beginning in 2019, based on feedback, the CCBC added the category “Pacific Islanders,” which previously had been folded into the “Asian” category as “Asian / Pacific Islanders.” We added the “Arab” category in 2020. We have since been able to update numbers from 2018 and 2019 to document both “Pacific Islander” and “Arab.” Use our Diversity Statistics Book Search to find out more about the titles we received and analyzed from 2018 on.
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Children’s Books By and/or About Black, Indigenous and People of Color Received by the CCBC 2018-
Last Updated: October 31, 2022
See next chart for numbers from U.S. publishers only.
Year |
Books
|
Black/African |
Indigenous |
Asian |
Latinx |
Pacific Islander |
Arab |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | ||
| 2021 | 3,427* | 315 | 452 | 60 | 74 | 504 | 357 | 329 | 243 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 22 |
| 2020 | 3,451* | 260 | 409 | 39 | 53 | 416 | 328 | 250 | 206 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 27 |
| 2019 | 4,075 | 235 | 479 | 51 | 70 | 446 | 369 | 253 | 236 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 37 |
| 2018 | 3,682 | 214 | 405 | 44 | 56 | 400 | 343 | 222 | 252 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 28 |
*Due to the pandemic, some publishers didn’t send out review copies, so we didn’t get the number of books we typically do. As always, we recommend calculating percentages to see trends.
Children’s Books By and/or About Black, Indigenous and People of Color Received by the CCBC–U.S. Publishers Only 2018-
Last Updated: October 31, 2022
Year |
Books
|
Black/African |
Indigenous |
Asian |
Latinx |
Pacific Islanders |
Arab |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | By | About | ||
| 2021 | 3,190* | 308 | 439 | 47 | 62 | 464 | 337 | 312 | 235 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 21 |
| 2020 | 3,265* | 256 | 401 | 27 | 41 | 387 | 310 | 233 | 197 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| 2019 | 3,751 | 227 | 459 | 31 | 45 | 393 | 336 | 237 | 235 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 33 |
| 2018 | 3,352 | 205 | 389 | 27 | 34 | 358 | 309 | 208 | 243 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 24 |
*Due to the pandemic, some publishers didn’t send out review copies, so we didn’t get the number of books we typically do. As always, we recommend calculating percentages to see trends.