![]() ![]() The new data is eye-opening and interesting in its own right, and it also provides a means for us to parse books in greater detail. Additionally, Kay Tarapolsi’s feedback helped us to make decisions about the best way to track books by and about Arabs and Arab Americans, which we are beginning to do this year.) The COVID-19 pandemic may have set us back in our initial compilation of the CCBC statistics for 2019 books, but it also comes with a silver lining: extra time to dig into the numbers. (Thanks to Uyenthi Tran Myhre, in 2019 we made Pacific Islander a separate category it had until then been erroneously included in the Asian category. ![]() ![]() Beginning in 2018, thanks to a new database we created, the CCBC expanded the range of collected data to include representations of LGBTQIAP+ identities, disability, and religion. Since 1985, the CCBC has kept track of children’s books we receive by and about Africans and African Americans in 1994 we also began counting books by and about Asians and Asian Americans, Latinxs, and Indigenous peoples. ![]() Previous columns can be found at /tag/ccbc. 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. ![]()
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