The Latino community is represented in fewer than 10% of children's books. But that number is far better than it was in 1994: only 2%.
Change rarely happens in a flood. It's more a series of waves. And in the world of books for kids, waves are pushing back the shore.
Rodriguez says one publisher even"said that 'Latino parents don't really buy books for their kids.' That's exactly what she said. Then you start questioning yourself and your role and your place in your very own country."Every year, the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin catalogs thousands of new books a year for various measures of diversity.
In recent years, the waves of effort by communities of color are paying off. This past year, 7% of children's books received were about the Latino community. Eleven percent had at least one Latino creator. And nearly half had at least one creator of color.
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