A third of UK children do not see themselves reflected in books, finds survey

Responses from 60,000 young readers show 33% feel unrepresented, with an even worse picture among poorer and minority ethnic readers

A third of children in the UK do not see themselves in the books they read, according to a survey of almost 60,000 children and young people by the National Literacy Trust.

The responses from 58,346 children and young people aged nine to 18 were gathered between January and mid-March, in what the NLT is calling the first large-scale exploration of diversity in children’s books that focuses on children’s own experiences.

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