The Importance of Diversity in Children’s Books Where do We Begin? As a child I learned a very popular children’s song that addressed a love for all the children in the world. Four skin tones were mentioned in the melody, yet the ethnicities of today reach far beyond red, yellow, black, and white. As our nation continues to grow in ethnic diversity, so do our children. Statics show that in the classrooms of 2020, 50% of children ages ten and under come from multi-ethnic famil