Panelists discussed the problem of creating greater racial diversity in the production of children's literature. Wade Hudson moderated.

Jerry Craft is the author ofMamma's Boyz; Zetta Elliott is the author of A Wish Before Midnight; Cheryl Willis Hudson is the author of My Friend Maya Loves to Dance; Nick Burd is the author of The Vast Fields of Ordinary (Dial).


"White and Whatever: Diversity in Children's & Young Adult Book Publishing" was a panel of the 12th annual Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.