Judging A Publisher By Its Covers, Observers Cry Racism

Though the heroine of “Magic Under Glass” “is described in the book as black-haired and brown-skinned … the cover chosen by Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books shows a white, brown-haired girl.” Last year, the same publisher put “a white girl on the cover of Justine Larbalestier’s novel Liar, about a black girl.”