Japanese American Illustrator was a pioneer in depicting multiethnic children in picture books. I have long been drawn to vintage children's books, but something they lack overall is diversity. Not so, with the books from author/illustrator Gyo Fujikawa (1908-1999). Way ahead of her time, the California-born illustrator is noted as the first to depict children of many races in her books in the early 1960s. It was not a smooth road. Her book "Babies" was illustrated with a racially diverse…