BookTrust Represents: picture books
BookTrust Represents is our programme created to promote children’s authors and illustrators of colour. As part of the project we have put together a booklist highlighting some of our favourite picture books by authors and illustrators of colour.

Books play an important role as mirrors for children: these stories and characters will affect how they see themselves and the world around them, their motivation to read, and their aspirations to become authors and illustrators of the future.
However, finding books that truly reflect the diversity of families in the UK is challenging. Over the past 11 years, fewer than 2% of all authors and/or illustrators of children’s books published in the UK were British people of colour.
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15 Things Not to Do With a Baby
by Margaret McAllister, illustrated by Holly Sterling
2015 2 to 6 years
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Daddy Do My Hair: Kechi’s Hair Goes Every Which Way
by Tọlá Okogwu, illustrated by Naomi Wright
2018 4 to 9 years
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BookTrust Represents is a programme created to promote and improve the representation of people of colour in children’s books so that all children read a range of books that reflect them and their wider communities.