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John Newbery opened a bookstore in London where he sold books for children
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Children begin to learn how to read and write at school, which increased the number of books published.
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The US publishing house of Macmillan created a department devoted to children's books. Louise Bechtel Seaman became head of the department.
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Helen Dean Fish and May Massee became the first children's book editors at two separate companies.
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May Massee moves to open her own children's book department. Other publishers began to open stores as well.
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Children's Book Press was created to produce bilingual picture books that reflected diversity.
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Bishop found that only 3 to 4 percent of books published between 1990-1993 related to people of color.
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Books that related to minorities was still hard to find. Further, books that contained characters that were gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual were even more rare.