Twentieth Century

By roberto.reynoso

  • Non-traditional Roles

    Between the 60's to 70's, to find books that presented girls and women in what at the time were, "non-traditional" roles.

  • Books of Color

    In 1994, Bishop found that only three to four percent of the children't books published in 1990, 1991, 1992, related to people of color.

  • Censused Figures

    Study conducted in the final decade of the twentieth century confirmed that the number of children's books that present pluralistic balanced racial and ethnic images of children's seldom paralleled censused figures.

  • Translation

    It was found in English speaking countries that less than 1% of books published in the U.S. were books that have been translated.

  • LGBTQ

    Between the years of 1998 and 2002, it was found that books that contained characters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender were also few and far between making these books hard to find.