Tessa Schmidt

At the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), we know there is great interest in the statistics we release every year about diversity in children’s and young adult literature. From the very beginning of our work documenting aspects of diversity in books for youth, we’ve understood that the numbers are part of a much bigger story, one that stretches back far beyond the nearly forty years we’ve been releasing numerical data, and one that is about much more than numbers.