My mentor suggested this article written by Walter Dean Myers, called Where are the People of Color in Children's books? When she told me the title I was excited to read it, because even though I am really white looking, I'm Mexican and have been interested in this. Myers gave the incredible fact that out of the 3,200 childeren's books written in the year 2013, only 93 featured people of color. Myers mentions as he was growing up as he saw only white kids in his books, he wasn't able to humanize them, they didn't feel real and the lives of white people were not meant for the lives of people of color.
I found this article to be very helpful, because the book that I am illustrating is featuring a kid of latin american culture.
Hi Aubree,
ReplyDeleteMy son and I just got a children's books from the library. One you should see the artwork of is "Around our way on Neighbor's Day" by Tamera Fryer Brown