11 Bestselling Children’s Books

Period: May/June - 2017

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Celebrating Black stories and authors since 1998, the AALBC Bestsellers List is now published quarterly. Here’s a printable list and collage of this period’s titles. Also check out the BLK Bestsellers—the definitive monthly guide to America’s bestselling books by Black writers.

Children’s books outsold all genres for the May/June period. Fiction sales were the 2nd most popular genre, led by the sales of independent or small presses. Nonfiction sales, which are normally strong, were the weakest we have seen in the last 15 years, resulting in only two titles with enough sales to make our bestsellers list. Poetry sells each period for which we report, however sales sufficient to make a bestsellers list was last reported Jan/Feb 2017

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2
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream

Salt in His Shoes

by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
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3
Thunder Rose

Thunder Rose

by Jerdine Nolen
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4
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin’s Big Words

by Doreen Rappaport
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5
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman

Wilma Unlimited

by Kathleen Krull
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6
Freedom in Congo Square

Freedom in Congo Square

by Carole Boston Weatherford
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7
Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans

Congo Square

by Freddi Williams Evans
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10
Please, Baby, Please

Please, Baby, Please

by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
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