Jewel Parker Rhodes, author of best-selling book Ghost Boys, discusses the lack of diverse role models in literature and how it almost prevented her from becoming an author.
Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the freedom he has had to write about topics that he might not have been able to tackle before winning the Newbery Award.
In the 1960s, there was fierce debate about whether or not children’s book publishers were producing enough books that represented America’s multiracial makeup.
