Alice Walker (A) and Stefano Vitale (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Poetry / Consequences of War – 2007

Though War is Old It has not Become wise. Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem. Stefano Vitale?s…

An endearing and empowering story that demonstrates that a learning difference like dyslexia doesn’t define who you are.

Despite her struggles with reading and writing, Beatrice is a natural and brilliant storyteller. With the help of a kind-hearted teacher, Beatrice uses an old-fashioned tape recorder so she can speak her words and then play…

Nikki Grimes (A) and Bryan Collier (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Biography – African American History/President – 2008)

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held…

Deborah R. Lilly (A)

List Price: $15.95 (Paperback – Black Hair Care / Boys and Girls 2005)

A renowned stylist offers easy-to-follow hair-care instructions. In this hands-on guide, hairstylist Deborah Lilly shows parents the best ways to style and maintain African American boys and girls hair from infancy to the preteen…

Bursting with inspiration and affirmation, Kheris Rogers’ debut picture book encourages children everywhere to love the skin they are in.

When her confidence is shaken by peers who say they are scared of her because she’s “too dark,” Imani turns to her sister for a loving reminder that she’s <span class="a-text-italic"…

This joyful, intergenerational love story celebrates Black hair, self-care, and cultural pride. Perfect for fans of Hair Love and Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut.

It’s wash day―Tasha’s least favorite day of the week!

Wash day means stinging eyes, aching back, and water everywhere, even in Tasha’s ears!  But with…

A young biracial girl looks around her world for her color. She finally chooses her own, and creates a new word for herself―honeysmoke.

Simone wants a color.

She asks Mama, “Am I black or white?”

“Boo,” Mama says, just like mamas do, “a color is just a word.”

She asks Daddy,…

Jacqueline Woodson (A)and Rafael Lopez (ILT)  

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Meeting New People – 2018)

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López…

Tim Tingle (A) and Jeanne Rorex Bridges (ILT)

List Price: $12.95 (Paperback – Choctaw / African American / Friendship and Escape – 2008)

When it was first published, Crossing Bok Chitto took readers by surprise. This moving and original story about the intersection of Native and African Americans received starred reviews and many…

Public Domain, E.B.. Lewis (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Song / African American Spiritual – 2005)

A great visual interpretation of a a popular African-American spiritual. It is morning when the book opens, and readers are greeted by a smiling boy. Throughout the day, he spreads his own special…

In the spirit of I Am Enough, this is a moving and lyrical tribute to and affirmation of Black children around the world—by an exciting new author and illustrator team.

Dear Black Child,

We are here to remind you of your glory…

An inspiring love letter to Black…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a political and social movement that advocates for non-violent civil disobedience and protests against incidents of police brutality–and all racially…

Ready to Read: Living In India (Level 2) 

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover Living In India – 2016)

Discover what it’s like to grow up in India in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world!

Namaskār!…

The ABCs of Cybersecurity takes readers on a high-tech adventure into the exhilarating world of digital security.

In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving digital landscape, where children are spending increasingly more time online, this book equips kids with the tools they need to defeat cyber villains, navigate the digital world with confidence, and discover…

Kelly Cunnane (A) and Ana Juan (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Kenya / Child’s Responsibility / Family – 2006)

Imagine you live in a small Kenyan village, where the sun rises over tall trees filled with doves. You wake to the sound of a rooster’s crow, instead of an alarm clock and…

A moving picture book about the history of Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas—and the origins of Juneteenth.

When people visit me, they are free—to run, play, gather, and rejoice.

They built me to remember.

On June 19, 1865, the 250,000 enslaved people of Texas learned they were free, ending slavery in…

Mary Chamberlin and Richard Chamberlin (A) and Julia Cairns (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback- East African Culture / Kenya/ Mother and Son / Cooking / Generosity – 2006)

Kindergarten-Grade 3-Mama Panya and her son, Adika, are all ready for market day where Mama is planning on using her few coins to buy the…

Mary Burns Knight (A) and Margey Knight and Anne Sibley OBrien (ILT)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Various African Children and Countries)

Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.

Tells the stories of the ordinary lives of children throughout a typical day in…

Ysaye M. Barnwell (A) and Synthia Saint James (ILT)

List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Book and CD / Self Pride – 2005)

The beauty in the cracked and crowded hallway, the beauty in her own dark skin, the beauty in the outside world – it all in her Nana eyes.…

Gail E. Haley (A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – African Tale / Ananse The Spider – 1970)

Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man,…

Monica Brown (A) and John Parra (ILT)

List Price: $15.95 (Hardcover – First Latina Nobel Prize Winner – 2005)

Gabriela Mistral loved words and sounds and stories. Born in Chile, she would grow to become the first Nobel Prize-winning Latina woman in the world. As a poet and a teacher, she inspired…

Nikki Giovanni (A), Alicia Vergel de Dios (ILT), Damian Ward (ILT), Kristen Balouch (ILT), Jeremy Tugeau (ILT), Michele Noiset (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Book and CD / Poetry – 2008)

Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. It has both a book and CD…

George Gershwin (A) and Mike Wimmer (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback / Plantation Life – 2002)

This lavish picture book is based on the beloved folk opera Porgy and Bess features Wimmer lush, epic oil paintings which reveal a vision of plantation life that extends the lyrics of this enormously popular…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) Eric Velasquez (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Black Library Pioneer and Historian – 2017) 

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and…

Shane Evans (A) and (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Kwanzaa Celebration – 2010)

Share this Kwanzaa story with your family or in the classroom. “Very bright, playful, textured pictures capture the spirit of community that is the essence of the holiday. The two final pages about ‘The Nguzo Saba––The…

Carmen T. Bernier-Grad (A) & Alyssa Bermudez

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Multicultural / Similarities – 2021)

Six kids are ready to play: three speak English. Y tres hablan español [and three speak Spanish]. But all of them laugh alike and together! This clever playground adventure weaves together bilingual Spanish and English conversations, so…

Penned by the very first Crayon Activist, Bellen Woodard, this picture book will tug at readers’ heartstrings and inspire them to make a difference!

When Bellen Woodard’s classmates referred to “the skin-color” crayon, in a school and classroom she had always loved, she knew just how important it was that everyone understood that “skin…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A) & Susan Jeffers (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 1996)

Rich in imagery and detail, this exquisitely rendered picture book introduces readers to one of America’s favorite classic poems, “The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Susan Jeffers, the Caldecott-Honor winning author of <u…

So, You’re Gonna Be a Parent?! takes you on a heartfelt journey through the first stages of life—from babies first cries and facial expressions to toddlerhood.

This book helps guide parents through important childhood milestones building growth, trust, and love.
Written by Deborrah A. Bremond, this book is a must-have for every person stepping…

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut picture book—a tour de force that uses the principles of Kwanzaa to talk about the history of African Americans. This lyrical, powerful tribute is sumptuously illustrated by New Yorker artist and rising star Loveis…

Carolivia Herron (A) and Joe Cepeda (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Hair / Self Esteem / Family – 1998)

You sure do got some nappy hair on your head, don’t you? Well. It’s your hair Brenda, take the cake. Yep.In a unique and vibrant picture book that uses the African-American call-and-response tradition,…

The first children’s book to feature material from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, this beautiful picture book will engage hearts and minds as it introduces children to the guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter movement.

When the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013, the three founders — Alicia Garza, Patrisse…

Last Stop on Market Street gets a jazzy twist in this finger-licking good celebration of music, food, and family.

Struttin’ with Auntie Nina down to a club,
We’re gonna hear some music and then eat some grub.
Wanna get up close, but we’re…

Kadir Nelson (A and ILT)

List Price: $21.99 (Hardcover – Sports / Negro League Baseball – 2008)

2010 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor Award

We are the ship; all else the sea. Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League

The story of…

Michael S. Bandy, (A) Eric Stein (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover / African American History / Civil Rights Story – 2015)  

Based on the true story of one family’s struggle for voting rights in the civil rights–era South, this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight on a…

Tami Charles (A) and Jacqueline Alcantara (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Haiti / Tradition / Family / Community -2019)

Join the celebration in the kitchen as a family makes their traditional New Year’s soup — and shares the story of how Haitian independence came to be.

The shake-shake of maracas vibrates down to my…

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner!

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very difficult conversation far too familiar to so many Black and Brown Americans in this gentle and ultimately hopeful picture book.

Jay’s most favorite things…

LaTashia M. Perry (A) and Brittany Jackson (ILT) 

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Imagination – 2017)

Description: From the creators of Hair Like Mine and Skin Like Mine… Imagination Like Mine will take children on an exciting journey page after page! Sure to capture young readers attention through rhyming and repetition while also…

Ntozake Shange (A) and Kadir Nelson (A) and (ILT) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Family / Duke Ellington / Harlem Renaissance Legends – 2004)

In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered…

This book will teach kids the values of resilience, self-acceptance, and positivity. If you are looking for a book that will help grow strong, confident little boys and girls, this is it.

In the Mirror, is an inspiring book of self-affirmation for children. It tells the story of two siblings who embrace themselves…

 Peter Tosh (A) and Rachel Moss (ILT)

 List Price:  $17.95 (Hardcover – African / Song Lyric  –  2020)

A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.

So don’t care where you come from
As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African
No mind…

Contagiously upbeat, joyful, and positive . . . [C]herish this book.” –Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

“A must-have for any library that is in need of books with positive representation for and about black children, as there is no other alphabet book quite like this one.” –School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

“A necessary, uplifting volume that…

These joyous portraits of Black men engaged in everyday life celebrate the deep roots and rich cultures of African American communities.

Christopher Gregorowski (A) and Niki Daly (ILT) Archbishop Desmond Tutu (FRWD)

List Price: $12.91 (Paperback – West African Tale / Identity / Self Esteem – 2008)

After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He…

Various Authors and Tom Feelings (EDIT) and ILT)

List Price: $8.99  (Paperback – Poetry / African American – 1999)

Artist Feelings invited poets whom he admired to compose original, short verses for these drawings, with breathtakingly rich and powerful results. Together they created a tribute to African-American creativity, the collection…