2 Awards Given to Promote Multicultural Children’s Books; New York Times, 3/10/13

Leslie Kaufman, New York Times; 2 Awards Given to Promote Multicultural Children’s Books: "A month ago a nonprofit called First Book, which promotes literacy among children in low-income communities, announced the Stories for All project, a program intended to prod publishers to print more multicultural books. Kyle Zimmer, First Book’s chief executive, says that part of the motivation was the “chasm” between the number of people who want such books and what is available. On Wednesday, First Book will announce that awards of $500,000 will go to two publishers for their proposals for the project: HarperCollins, the big publishing house owned by News Corporation, and Lee & Low, a minority-owned independent publisher."