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Beautiful Mosaic of Important Children Book Covers — View an alphabetized List of these books.

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