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Noted: After much debate in the publishing industry, children’s literature is more diverse today than ever before but still is far from representative. Of some 3,500 children’s books received from United States publishers in 2017 by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 116 were by black authors and 319 were about African-American characters, the center said.