Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2024 - May 2025

Below are the results from my annual diversity audit. As a reminder, I perform this audit to examine how I represent BIPOC creators on this site. As always, a lot of work to do. Here are this year's results, and you can see previous years' diversity audits here.

Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2023 - May 2024

Below are the results from my annual diversity audit. As a reminder, I perform this audit to examine how I represent BIPOC creators on this site. Here are this year's results, and you can see previous years' diversity audits here.

Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2022 - May 2023

Below are the results from my annual diversity audit. As a reminder, I perform this audit to examine how I represent BIPOC creators via the interviews and reviews on this site. Here are this year's results, and you can see previous years' diversity audits here.

Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2021 - May 2022

Two years ago, I started an annual diversity audit of Let's Talk Picture Books for representation of BIPOC creators and illustrators via the interviews and reviews on this site. Here are this year's results:

Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2020 - May 2021

Last June, in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the subsequent protests, I did an audit of Let's Talk Picture Books for representation of BIPOC creators and illustrators across the site. When all is said and done, this blog focuses on books intended for children, so diversity and inclusion are key -- today's kids are tomorrow's leaders and policy makers, and everyone deserves to see themselves represented in the books they consume and ultimately internalize. I promised to do the audit again this year, and I thought I would share the results:

Annual LTPB Diversity Audit: June 2019 - May 2020

I have been quiet the last couple of weeks in favor of marching, donating, reading, sharing, listening, and learning. I wanted to make sure I was giving space to Black creators, and I wanted to make sure that when I came back that I'd fully had time to reflect and understand what I can do to represent more Black illustrators here on Let's Talk Picture Books.

These reflections ultimately manifested themselves in the form of a site audit. I looked at who I interviewed and whose books I had reviewed (both authors and illustrators), focused on June 2019-May 2020. This is what I found.