Latino Children Seldom See Themselves In Books Written For Young Readers

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The New York Times:

PHILADELPHIA ? Like many of his third-grade classmates, Mario Cortez-Pacheco likes reading the ?Magic Tree House? series, about a brother and a sister who take adventurous trips back in time. He also loves the popular ?Diary of a Wimpy Kid? graphic novels.

But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. ?I see a lot of people that don?t have a lot of color,? he said.

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