Jackie Carter has died. She was 62 years old.
Throughout her lifetime, Carter worked as an educator, an author, and a publishing executive. Within the publishing industry, she became well-known as a champion of diversity children’s books.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “So in 1975 she quit teaching and decided to devote her career to editing and publishing books that might captivate minority children and also reflect their lives. She started at Sesame Street magazine, then joined Scholastic in 1985 as editorial director of the early childhood division. Leaving Scholastic in 1997, she went on to work for Hyperion, Dorling Kindersley, Global Educational Books, Marvel Comics and Disney Global Children’s Book Division, where she published the Winnie-the-Pooh Nature Encyclopedia and was editorial director of Jump at the Sun, an imprint celebrating African-American culture.”