This essay discusses how many children's books have been considered classics, but how they have also been challenged as having race and gender bias. Rudyard Kipling's How The Leopard Got His Spots, Paula Fox's The Slave Dancer, and Lynne Reid Banks' The Indian in the Cupboard are all examined in this context. The paper finds that they have a certain amount of racial bias. 8-pages, bibliography lists 4 sources.