Carmen Tafolla (A) and Magaly Morales (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – A Mexican Popsicle Treat – 2014)

As she strolls through her barrio, a young girl introduces readers to the frozen, fruit-flavored treat that thrills Mexican and Mexican-American children.
 
In this bilingual paperback edition, discover the joys of a <em…

Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee (A) Kadir Nelson (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Toddlers with Puppy – 2005)

In page after page of tail-wagging fun, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Beacon Award-winning producer Tonya Lewis Lee, take a close-up look at what happens when a couple…

DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan (A and ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – City Garden / Community Sharing and Planting – 1994)

Right in the middle of Marcy city block is a vacant lot, littered and forlorn. Sometimes just looking at it makes Marcy feel sad. Then one spring, Marcy has a wonderful…

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (A) and Jade Johnson (ILT) 

List Price: $17.95 (Hardcover – Lunch Counter Sit In Pioneer – 2018) 

Someday Is Now tells the inspirational story of the celebrated civil rights leader, Clara Luper, who led one of the first lunch-counter…

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…

Margaret Mason (A) and Floyd Cooper (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Teaching Racial Discrimination / Grandfather and Grandson – 2011)

Josephs grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curve ball, and tie a triple bowline knot in…

Jacob Lawrence (A and ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – African American History / Migration North 1900 – 2007)

A noted African-American artist chronicles the 1916-1919 migration of blacks from the South through a sequence of 60 paintings and accompanying narrative captions. The story begins with the call for new…

Take a walk through Harlem’s Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary.

With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art…

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…

Before the Ships is a powerful and poetic celebration of the early roots of Black history. The great achievements and accomplishments across Africa prior to the Transatlantic slave trade are told through melodious text and evocative illustrations, that culminate into the strength and resilience of modern-day Black people.

For so many of us,…

Vanda Micheaux Nelson (A) and R. Gregory Christie (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – African History / Harlem Bookstore – 2016)

“In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the…

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…

Kadir Nelson (A and ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Biography / African American Leader – 2014)

A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: My father’s dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition…

Toni Morrison (A) and Slade Morrison (A) and  Sean Qualls  (ILT) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Fable / Each One’s Greatness – 2010)

Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and…

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…

Peter H. Reynolds (A and ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Imagination / Word Power / Expression – 2018)

Some people collect stamps.

Some people collect coins.

Some people collect art.

And Jerome?

Jerome collected words . . . 

In this extraordinary new tale from Peter H. Reynolds, Jerome discovers the magic of…

Junot Diaz (A) and Leo Espinoza (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Family Remembering The Past / Home – 2018)

From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination.

Every kid in Lola’s school was from…

From New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby, I Am the Spirit of Justice uses lyrical text and moving illustrations to take children on a journey through the history of the United States of America, highlighting the ways people have been fighting for justice from the very beginning.

The fight for civil rights in America…

Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet (A) and Kasmos Kari Black (ILT)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Spirit and Oneness – 2017)

This is an excellent choice for introducing the concept of spirit and unity with nature. I am Mind, Body and spirit speaks about three main aspects of the self in a way that children can…

Nikki Giovanni (A) and Ashley Bryan (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Poetry / The Importance of Being Loved – 2018)

Newbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni’s poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish.

There is nothing more important to a child than to feel…

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…

What happens when a community discovers that vegetables have more to teach than just how to fill a plate?

Farmer B has spent a lifetime feeding his town, but when age and loneliness creep in, he wonders: who will carry the harvest forward? Then, a chorus of children, neighbors, and even the veggies themselves step…

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…

Tonya Bolden (A) and Don Tate (ILT)

List Price: $18.39 (Hardcover – Farmer / Potato King – 2018)

Discover the incredible true story of how one of history’s most successful potato farmers began life as a slave and worked until he was named the “Potato King of the World”!

Junius G. Groves came from humble…

Loretta Setto (A) & Renne Benoit (ILT)

List Price: $14.95 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 2017)

Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba…

Collected by Zora Neal Neal Hurston and Adapted by Christopher Myers (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Folk Lore – 2015)

Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn’t even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting…

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…

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,…

National Book Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist Baby) returns with a new picture book that serves as a modern bedtime classic.

As children all over the…

“The love that binds this family together is as warm as the summer sun.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

An extended family enjoys a day at the beach in this intergenerational tribute to family, friendship, new experiences, and summertime fun by the acclaimed author-artist Nina Crews. A fresh take on Cynthia Rylant’s…

Lisa Bullard (A) and Constanza Bazaluzzo (ILT) 

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Black Holiday / Spiritual Event -2012)

Kevin’s family is celebrating the seven days of Kwanzaa! Kevin helps his mom decorate the Kwanzaa table. They light candles with Grandma and Grandpa and learn a special word each day. They talk about working together…

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,…

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

List Price: $8.77 (Paperback – Identity and Diversity – 2016)

From the Creators of Hair Like Mine, Skin Like Mine is a fun, easy-to- read for beginners as well as advanced readers. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children.…

Based on the research that race, gender, consent,…

A new classic for Black and Brown children.

ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is possible!

Perhaps you want to become an artist, or a scientist, or maybe even president. Even when–especially when–the path is hard, Dear YOU: Dream BIG.

A personal, poetic, and uplifting affirmation from Caribbean-born author Baptiste Paul encouraging today’s Black youth…

Tamara Pizzoli (A) and Federico Fabiani (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Tooth Fairy Life  – 2019) 

Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s…

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…

We all have the power to make meaningful change! This story about one step in the civil rights movement – the Montgomery Bus Boycott – follows one boy’s day walking the walk.

Dexter and his Papa have a long walk ahead to Dex’s piano lessons. Dex sure wants to ride one of those buses…

Alexandra Penfold (A) and Suzanne Kaufmam (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Welcome to School – 2018)

Join the call for a better world with this New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated.

Discover a school where—no matter what—young children have a place, have a space,…

Cheryl Willis Hudson (A) and Bernadette Ford (A) and George Ford (ILT)

List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Discovery / Self Esteem – 1990)

A classic in early childhood education, Bright Eyes, Brown Skin features four adorable African-American youngsters as they go about their typical day at pre-school. More than 500,000 copies sold.…

Bunmi Laditan (A) and Tom Knight (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Family – 2018)

From Bunmi Laditan, the creator of the Honest Toddler blog, The Big Bed is a humorous picture book about a girl who doesn’t…

Joanna Ho (A) and Dung Ho (ILT)

 List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Multicultural Bilingual – 2021)

This lyrical, stunning picture book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, and is a celebration of diversity.

A young…

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.…

Deborah Hopkinson (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Historical / Underground Railroad – 2004)

Under the quilt of night a young slave girl leads her loved ones away from the slave master who worked them: hoeing and picking, / mending and sewing, / till…

Sherley Anne Williams (A) and Carole Byard (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – African American History / Migrant Farm Workers / Cotton – 1992)

This child’s view of the long days work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh…

Bedford Palmer ll (A) and Winda Mulyasari (ILT)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Skin Color, Prejudice & Racism – 2020)

USA Today Recommended: Antiracist Children’s BookJoy lives in a diverse world and comes from a multicultural family. It is only natural for her to have some questions. Join Joy as she learns how to…

Karen Katz (A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Saying Peace / Various Languages – 2006)

Children everywhere wish for peace

International Peace Day is September 21. On this day and every day throughout the year, children all over the world wish for peace. Karen Katz takes readers on a bright and…

A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way.

We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect…

Kelly Starling Lyons (A) and Daniel Minter (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Family / Heritage – 2019) 

A 2020 CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK

Set at one young boy’s annual family reunion, this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter is a rich…