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The CCBC's Diversity Statistics: New Categories, New Data
This is the fourth column in a series examining statistics gathered by the recently expanded database of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a research library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education. Previous columns can be found at hbook.com/tag/ccbc. Since 1985, the CCBC has kept track of children’s...
Considering the Criteria: Addressing Book Discussion Guidelines in the Twenty-First Century
In our awards-focused children’s book industry, the calendar is full of rituals. January is when we learn which books won ALA awards and which did not; June is when we celebrate those winners. With the turning of the season to fall, this is the moment in the award year when...
The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics: Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Stories
This is the third column in a series examining statistics gathered by the newly expanded database of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (a research library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education). Previous columns (interviews with CCBC Director Kathleen T. Horning) can be found in the July/August 2017 and...
A Preponderance of Pink: A Conversation with Kathleen T. Horning
Kathleen T. Horning is director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (a research library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education), which has been documenting publishing statistics concerning children’s books by and about people of color since 1985. The newly expanded CCBC database allows for a deeper examination of...
On "The CCBC's Diversity Statistics" (from 2017)
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been tracking the number of children's books created by people of color since 1985. In an interview that will be published in the July/August 2017 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, book review editor Martha V. Parravano talks with...
Diversity by the numbers
Please read Martha's interview with K.T. Horning about the CCBC's fabled accounting of diversity in children's books. I wonder what those numbers would look like from here, that is, if you counted the same variables for those books reviewed by the Horn Book Guide, would you get the same kind...
The CCBC's Diversity Statistics: A Conversation with Kathleen T. Horning
Kathleen T. HorningThe Cooperative Children’s Book Center (a research library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education) began documenting the numbers of children’s books by African American authors and illustrators in 1985 — when then–CCBC director Ginny Moore Kruse, serving on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, learned...