Quoted: The book is especially welcome because of the paucity of black characters in quality children?s literature, said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. According to the center?s statistics, about 5,000 children?s books were published in the United States in 2009, and 157 featured major black characters.
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