Diversity in children’s literature was one of the topics that I enjoyed very much. As an immigrant from a third world country I was very interested to see how diversified children literature was in the United States. However, I was amazed to see the data that showed that majority of children’s books depicted characters of the white race. The minority race was featured very few in books and even if they did they were portrayed as embarrassing. There still remains the diversity gap between the numbers of children of color and white children appearing in published books. The depiction of minority characters in children’s book affects negatively children who can relate to this race. In this course final project I will like to explore how racial
