African American children’s books
The above linked article talks about the top 150 African American children’s books. You know I will get to these, but not immediately. They are part of a series of diversity in children’s books, but I am having difficulty getting to the website with the full article.
- A Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks by Alice Faye Duncan
- A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki
- Afro-Bets 1-2-3 Book by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- And the Sun God Said: That’s Hip by Ernest Gregg
- Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
- As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
- Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
- Aya: The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three by Marguerite Abouet
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
- Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- Beautiful Moon by Tonya Bolden
- Bird by Zetta Elliott
- Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
- Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
- Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
- Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
- Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior
- Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Bronzeville Boys And Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Brothers In Hope by Mary Williams
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Chike And The River by Chinua Achebe
- Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse
- Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
- Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
- Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
- Daddy Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson
- Daddy is a Monster … Sometimes by John Steptoe
- Dancing In The Wings by Debbie Allen
- Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill
- Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield
- Don’t Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- Donavan’s Double Trouble by Monalisa DeGross
- Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
- Everett Anderson’s Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
- Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden
- Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
- Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo
- Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Grandma’s Records by Eric Velasquez
- Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? by Sandy Lynne Holman
- Hair Dance! by Dinah Johnson
- Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
- Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- How the Leopard Got His Claws by Chinua Achebe
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- I Am Mixed by Garcelle Beauvais
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxane Orgill
- In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage by Alan Schroeder
- Jazz by Walter Dean Myers
- Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you! by Jonah Winter
- Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
- Just an Overnight Guest by Eleanora E. Tate
- Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines
- Kevin And His Dad by Irene Smalls
- Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
- Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
- Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Little Lion Goes to School by Kellie Magnus
- Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson
- Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets by Deborah Shink
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Al-Shabazz
- March Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- March Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
- Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
- Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
- Max Paints the House by Ken Wilson-Max
- Me & Neesie (reillustrated) by Eloise Greenfield
- Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter by Dianne Ochiltree
- Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
- My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete
- My First Trip to Africa by Atlantis T. Browder
- My Friend Maya Loves To Dance by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
- One Love by Cedella Marley
- One Million Men And Me by Kelly Starling Lyons
- One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck
- Only Passing Through by Anne F. Rockwell
- Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change by Michelle Cook
- Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
- Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
- Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
- Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
- Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Rice & Rocks by Sandra L. Richards
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
- Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
- She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick
- Shortcut by Donald Crews
- Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
- Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Howard Bryant
- Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt
- Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
- Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lucille Clifton and 8 others
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Hidden Temple of Ogiso (Book 1) by O.T. Begho
- The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
- The Blacker The Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
- The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence
- The Great Migration: Journey To The North by Eloise Greenfield
- The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend by Ann Ingalls
- The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
- The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo by Tom Feelings
- The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by Langston Hughes
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- The People Could Fly Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton
- The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
- The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina
- This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability) by Aaron Philip
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
- Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
- Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
- We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
- What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull
- Wings by Christopher Myers
- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
- Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman
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