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Fasika Adefris

The Gabi That Girma Wore

Maya Angelou

My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me

Kofi and His Magic

Atinuke

100 Goats and Granny!

Catch That Chicken!

Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus!

Splash, Anna Hibiscus! Picture

Anna Hibiscus’ Song

Adwoa Badoe

The Runaway Bicycle

Champion Runner

Joel Eboueme Bognomo

Madoulina 

JaNay Brown-Wood

Imani’s Moon 

Ashley Bryan

Beautiful Blackbird

The Night Has Ears: African Proverbs

Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh-Huh

Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales 

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum

Eboni Bynum (Roland Jackson)

Jamari’s Drum 

Deborah M. Newton Chocolate

Imani in the Belly

Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend  

Evelyn Coleman

To Be a Drum 

Trish Cooke

How Anansi Got His Stories 

No Dinner for Anansi 

Pat Cummings

Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale

Yewande Daniel-Ayoade

The Little Regent

Ruby Dee

Two Ways To Count To Ten

Tower to Heaven 

Baba Wagué Diakité

A Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale

The Hatseller and the Monkeys

The Magic Gourd 

Mee-An and the Magic Serpent 

Penda Diakité

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Sylvianne Diouf

Bintou’s Braids

Monique Duncan

Freedom Braids

Diana Ejaita

Olu and Greta

Mylo Freeman

Smile with African Style (Macy’s World)

Veronica Freeman Ellis

Land of the Four Winds: Kpa Nieh Kpau

Bunmi Emenanjo

I’ll See You in Ijebu

Karen English

Red Shoes

Sade Fadipe

A Bouncy 123

A Visit to Grandad: An African ABC

A Fun ABC

Dwayne Ferguson

The Amazing Adventures of Abiola

Captain Africa: The Battle for Egyptica

Bernette Ford

The Hunter Who Was King and Other African Tales 

Shannon Gibney

Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight

Lorenz B. Graham

Song of the Boat 

Eloise Greenfield

Africa Dream

Frederic Guirma

In the Rainfield Who Is the Greatest?

Princes of the Full Moon 

Rosa Guy

Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal

Dakari Hru

Joshua’s Masai Mask

The Magic Moonberry Jump Ropes 

Nansubuga Nagaddya Isdahl

Sing to the Moon

Sleep Well, Siba and Saba

Shoshana Nambi

The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda 

Onyinye Iwu

The Best Jollof Rice Ever

Wanuri Kahiu

The Wooden Camel

Mary Dixon Lake

Royal Drum: An Ashanti Tale 

Patrice Lawrence

Our Story Starts in Africa

Julius Lester

Shining 

The Old African 

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Janice Liddell

Imani and the Flying Africans

Patricia McKissack

Never Forgotten 

Angela Shelf Medearis

Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale

Bernard Mensah

Kente for Jojo

Jollof Day

Tololwa M. Mollel

My Rows and Piles of Coins

The Princess Who Lost Her Hair: An Akamba Legend

Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!

From the Lands of the Night

Kitoto the Mighty

Subira Subira

Orphan Boy

Kele’s Secret 

Big Boy 

Dume’s Roar

Marilyn Nelson

Ostrich and Lark 

Pierre Yves Njeng

Vacation in the Village: A Story from West Africa 

Sihle Nontshokweni/Mathabo Tlali

Wanda

Laura Nsafou

Fadya and the Song of the River

Nnedi Okorafor

Chicken in the Kitchen

Isaac Olaleye

Bikes For Rent

Lake of the Big Snake 

Bitter Bananas 

Àlàbá Ònájìn

Oh No, Ojó!

Waaa Waaa Goes Táwà

Tamara Pizzoli

The Ghanaian Goldilocks

Twelve Abyssinian Princesses

The King and the Flute: A Nigerian Tale

F is for Fufu: An Alphabet Book Based on The Ghanaian Goldilocks 

Leontyne Price

AIDA

Dylan Pritchett

The First Music 

Adjai Robinson

Three African Tales

Singing Tales of Africa

Kasho and the Twin Flutes

Femi and Old Granddaddie

Dorothy W. Robinson

The Legend of Africania

Segilola Salami

Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba Girl in London

Taiye Selasi

Anansi and the Golden Pot

Elinor Batezat Sisulu

The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, 1994

John Steptoe

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Efua Sutherland (Theodora Morgue)

The Voice in the Forest 

Playtime in Africa 

Veronique Tadjo

If I Were a King, If I Were a Queen 

Mamy Wata and the Monster

Grandma Nana

Lord of the Dance: An African Retelling 

Seina Wedlick

The Night Market

Mary Williams

Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

Ken Wilson-Max

Eco Girl

Adrienne Yabouza

The Magic Doll: A Children’s Book Inspired by African Art

Elizabeth Zunon

Through Sand and Salt: A Tale of Discovery Across the Sahara

Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family