Multicultural Children’s Literature is an essential form of children’s books. It is important for children who are members of minority ethnic groups be represented in literature. In the classroom it is encouraging and confirming for those students to read about someone like themselves and see their teacher get excited about a book about someone like them. The Russel text discusses how the biggest multicultural groups represented are African Americans and Native Americans. According to the text for my Reading class, the most underrepresented group if Hispanic girls. The Russel text discusses the importance of Multicultural children’s books being written by members of that multicultural group. This necessity should be more strongly proclaimed so that change can occur.