This was one of two essays in the NYTimes Sunday (3/16) review addressing the finding from the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the university of Wisconsin: Of 3,200 children's books published in 2013 just 93 were about black people (less about Hispanics). Walter Dean Myers observations and experiences speak to the two Connecticuts . . .http://tinyurl.com/oceoh9o

AND you've got to love the art piece . . .

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