A Starter Collection For The Kindergarten Classroom 

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Great SELECTION for READ ALOUD and BUILDING VOCABULARY and CULTURAL IDENTITY 

Contents In This Collection:  18 Paperback Books + 51 Hardcover Books and 4 Level Early Readers

Make Your Own Custom Collection:  Book Additions and Deletions…

The Little Self Love Bundle Is Perfect for Babies and Toddlers

Includes the Following 6 Board Books

Brown Sugar Baby $9.99

“Brown sugar baby, dark eyes spark bright with glee…Pie of my eye, stay right here with me.” This lyrical first book in the Brown Sugar Baby series is a celebration of the powerful love and protective,…

The Perfect Little Bundle for African American Baby Girls

Includes The Following 6 Board Books 

Bloom $8.99

This board book delivers an ode to African American Girls that they are as naturally beautiful as a human garden.  Introduce young readers to the idea of self-love in a simple, playful rhythm with this luminous story where…

The Perfect Little Bundle for African American Baby Boys

Includes the Following 6 Board Books

Every Little Thing $8.99

A classic for every baby collection. Every family will relate to this universal story of a boy who won’t let anything get him down, as long as he has the help of three special little birds.…

The Best Multi-Cultural Mix and Perfect for Little Ones

Includes The Following 8 Board Books 

Babies on the Bus $9.99

The babies on the bus sing LA-LA-LA! LA-LA-LA! LA-LA-LA! Jump on the bus with Karen Katz’s adorable babies as they take a classic song for an all-new ride!  This irresistible board book by the popular author…

The Perfect Little Spanish Bi-Lingual Bundle (Group A)

Includes the Following 6 Board Books

Counting With – Contando Con Frida $9.99

Introduce your little one to the life of one of Mexico’s most iconic painters, Frida Kahlo, while teaching them their numbers, 1 to 10, in English and Spanish. Count una casa azul (one blue house), tres flores(three…

The Perfect Little Spanish Bi-Lingual Bundle (Group B)

Includes the Following 6 Board Books

Around The World with / Alreadedor del mundo con Cantinflas / Geology $9.99

Inspired by one of the world’s most iconic comedians, Mario Moreno (better known as the inquisitive Cantinflas), this book will take little ones around the world while introducing…

Rachel Isadora (A and ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback / South Africa / Children’s Love for their Fathers – 1994)

The children of a South African village eagerly gather at the crossroads to welcome their fathers, who have been away for months working in the mines. The children wait, but the men don’t come. So…

B is For Black Wealth is an ABC book for children designed to expose them to entrepreneurial concepts and business terminology.

This exposure is meant to build confidence in our children while simultaneously educating the adults that love them. This book is intentional about teaching concepts related to group economics, business ownership and financial empowerment.…

Kadir Nelson ( A and ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Finding Home / Being Grounded – 2014)

This simple story works on so many levels: as the tale of a bear who finds his way home with the help of his animal friends; as a reassuring way to show children how to comfort themselves…

Deloris Jordan (A) and James Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – A Baby Celebration Book – 2010)

A Prayer for the Day Your Were Born.  This touching story from bestselling author Doloris Jordan celebrates the blessings new parents wish for their babies all through their lives. With a strong emphasis on the bonds families…

It’s never too early to get little ones interested in computer coding with this unique series of board books!

How do you explain coding in art to a baby? By showing how it’s all around them, and how they can take part in it, of course! By using items in a baby’s world, like a…

Ann Taylor (A) and Marjorie van Heerden (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Board Book – Father Daughter Celebration – 1999)

Description: A sweet rhythmic poem by nineteenth century poet Anne Taylor that also captures the the motion of dance and music and a playful text, with vivid pastel illustrations. (16 pgs) Ages Baby – 3

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Atinuke (A) and Angela Brooksbank (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – A Day At The Market – 2017)

Join Baby and his doting mama at a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace for a bright, bouncy read-aloud offering a gentle introduction to numbers.

Market is very crowded.
Mama is very busy.
Baby is very curious.

When Baby and…

Baby Like Mine follows a little girl who’s having a difficult time adjusting to her new role as a Big Sister. This heartwarming story is the perfect way to aid both girls and boys in understanding their feelings while life for them is changing in a major way. With the arrival of a new baby,…

List Price: $7.99 ( Board Book – Playful Sibling Story – 2018) 

The legendary Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author and illustrator John Steptoe shares the story of a baby who desperately wants to get his older brother’s attention. Now in board book!

Spare text and lively illustrations tell the…

The perfect science baby gift for your future genius!

The bestselling Baby University baby board book set includes educational books for toddlers written by an expert that features colorful, simple introductions to scientific principles for babies. Its approach to early learning is beloved by kids and grownups!

Included in this Four-Book Set:

• Quantum Physics for Babies
• Rocket…

“There are so many things I am and can be… There’s a whole world waiting for me.” 

Introduce your baby to Black excellence with this lyrical board-book edition of Young, Gifted and Black. Includes a mirror at the back so young dreamers can see themselves next to their heroes.

Meet icons of color from past and present in this baby…

Little ones won’t be afraid to touch these bugs. Learn fun facts about the bugs and creatures in your own backyard in this colorful, touch and feel board book. The touch and feel silicone textures add a sensory element to this book for toddlers.

With fun rhyming text, your toddler can explore each insects different…

Walter Dean Myers (A)

List Price: $13.99 (Paperback – Auto Biography – 2002)

In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one of the…

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

List Price: $19.99  (Library Binding – Biography Law Enforcement / U.S. Marshall – 2009)

Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. As a U.S. Marshal – and former slave who…

Jonah Winter (A) and A G Ford (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography – African American History / 44th President 2008)

This is a journey that began in many places.

It began in Kansas, home of Barack’s mother. It began in Africa, home of Barack’s father. It began in Hawaii one moonlit night, the…

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 on to…

Tiki Barber (A), Ronde Barber (A), Paul Mantell (Contri)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Series / Sports/ Football – 2014)

The Hidden Valley Eagles have high hopes for the football championship in this novel from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber.

Tiki and Ronde are ready to end junior high with a…

Ronde Barber (A), Tiki Barber (A) and Paul Mantell (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Series: Football / Identical Twins / New Coach / Team Spirit – 2008)

It Tiki and Ronde second year on their junior high school football team, the Hidden Valley Eagles. The eighth-grade season is here, and the boys have come…

Tiki Barber (A), Ronde Barber (A) and Paul Mantell (Contri)

Price: $7.99  (Paperback – Series / Sports / Football- Popularity – 2013) 

Balancing priorities presents a challenge in this heartwarming novel about teamwork and perseverance from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber.

Tiki and Ronde have grown a lot during the spring…

Tiki & Ronde Barber with Paul Mantell (A)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Sports / Jr. High Football / Siblings / Teamwork and Perseverance – 2007)

Tiki and Ronde twelfth summer is winding down — the nights are getting shorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just…

Tiki Barber (A), Ronde Barber (A) and Paul Mantell (Contri)

Price: $7.99  (Paperback – Series / Sports / Football – Playoffs – 2013) 

The Hidden Valley Eagles have the championship in sight—but will chicken pox get in the way?

The Hidden Valley Eagles are on track to make the playoffs. Full of focus and determination,…

Tiki Barber (A), Ronde Barber (A) and Paul Mantell (Contri)

Price: $7.99  (Paperback – Series / Sports / Football- Grades/Probation – 2012) 

From NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, a story of teamwork and determination—in the classroom as well as on the field.

The eighth-grade season couldn’t be going better for the Barbers’ team, the…

A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized swimming dreams, from the author of The Education of Margot Sanchez and Never Look Back, Lilliam Rivera.

Natalia de la Cruz Rivera y Santiago, also known as Nat, was swimming neighborhood kids out of their money at the local Boyle…

Retha Powers (A) and Henry Louis Gates (FRWD)

List Price: $40.00 (Hardcover – Reference / Black Quotations- 2013)

Description: A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.

BARTLETT’S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are…

Ken Mochizuki (A) and Dom Lee (ILT)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Japanese / Intern Camp / Baseball – 1993)

A Japanese-American boy and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during WWII. To help deal with their depression they decide to build a baseball field. During a game, the boy channels…

Chris Paul (A) and Courtney Lovett (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover –  Basketball and Grandpa – 2023)

From NBA All-Star Chris Paul comes an inspirational and uplifting picture book about chasing your basketball dreams and the lessons he learned both on and off the court from his beloved grandfather Papa Chilly.

Growing up, young Chris…

Jewell Parker Rhodes (A)  

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Mystery / Friends – 2016) 

A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist.

It’s city-girl Maddy’s first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with…

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and (ILT) James E. Ransome

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Kids Bio of Dr. King – 2018)

You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall.

You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience.

Featuring a dual narrative…

Bell Hooks (A) and Chris Raschka (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Board Book- Discovery / Celebrating Boyhood – 2016)

Be Boy Buzz catchy phrases celebrates all the bliss and boldness of being a boy. Lively story and sweet illustrations. (32 pgs) Ages 4-8

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Arune Gandhi (A), Bethany Hegedus (A) and Evan Turk (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – India / Being Present / Wastefulness – 2016)

In this breathtaking companion to the award-winning Grandfather Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, with Bethany Hegedus, tells a poignant, personal story of the damage of wastefulness, gorgeuously illustrated by Evan Turk.

At Grandfather Gandhi’s…

The life of civil rights icon Angela Davis is illuminated in an extraordinary picture book biography. Booklist praised this profound exploration of American history, activism, the civil rights movement, and the power of the people as a one that “should be part of all social studies curricula.” For fans of Maya’s Song, Nina, and There Was a Party for Langston. 

Before she was an iconic civil rights…

A lyrical and affirming ode to Black girls. An ideal next read for fans of I Am Enough and the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduation.

Be, Black Girl, Be

Breathe in your truth. And never let anyone dull your shine.

With poetic text and exuberant artwork, this book is a wish from one…

Candice  Ransome (A) and Erika Meza (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (PAPERBACK – Day At The Beach – 2020)

Summer sun and fun in this Step 1 reader featuring the family from Pumpkin Day!, Apple Picking Day!, Garden Day, and Snow Day!

Family time means it’s time to pack up the car and head to the beach! The brother and…

From two bestselling creators comes a lyrical and heartfelt picture book about a multiracial family’s trip to the beach that’s an ode to family, community, diversity, and—most importantly—fabulous beach hair!

When I wake up with the wildest bed head
and Mommy and Daddy do too
Mommy says we all have beach hair,
so Daddy says,…

Uzodinma Iweala (A)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Africa  / Guerilla Fighting Boys – 2006) 

The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country—now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and starring Idris Elba (Mandela, The Wire).

As…

Stacy McAnulty (A) and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (ILT)

List Price: $17.95 (Hardcover – Self Esteem / Girls – 2016)

Every girl is unique, talented, and lovable. . . .Every girl is BEAUTIFUL.

Much more than how one looks on the outside, true beauty is found in conquering challenges, showing kindness, and spreading contagious laughter. Beautiful girls are…

Ashley Bryan (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Creativity / Self Expression – 2003)

Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black…

H. Chuku Lee (A) and Pat Cummings (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover (No Jacket Cover) – Fairy Tale 2014)

In this remarkable retelling of Beauty and the Beast, award-winning illustrator Pat Cummings creates an enchanted fairy-tale world flavored by the art, architecture, and culture of West Africa, while writer H. Chuku Lee stays true to…

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that…

This joyous and loving celebration of family is the first-ever picture book to highlight Black nighttime hair traditions–and is perfect for every little girl who knows what it’s like to lose her bonnet just before bedtime.

In my family, when the sun goes down, our hair goes up!
My brother slips a durag over his…