What makes good a good kids’ book? Publishers say the great ones share common traits

Noted: ?As a whole, the books being published just don?t reflect who we are as a nation in terms of diversity,? said Megan Schliesman, a children?s librarian in the University of Wisconsin?s School of Education. The university?s Cooperative Children?s Book Center complies the annual statistics on the number of kids? books by and about people of color.”