Meanwhile, 41.8 percent contained white main characters, and 29.2 percent contained animal main characters. According to The Cooperative Children's Book Center 2019 children's book survey, only 8.7 percent of children's books published in 2019 contained Asian or Asian American main characters. Not to mention, it's also equally important for children to see themselves in the books they read.īut despite overwhelming research that reading diverse books is vital for fostering confident, empathetic kids, Asian American stories and other minority stories are still underpublished. The study found that children's books help develop empathy the most when children read about and identify with characters dissimilar to themselves. However, a 2019 study published in The Frontiers of Psychology showed that reading alone isn't enough.
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