Fiction > Picture > Family

Debbie Allen
Brothers of the Knight 
Dancing in the Wings 
Glenda Armand
Love Twelve Miles Long 
Jabari Asim
Whose Toes Are Those? 
Boy of Mine 
Girl of Mine
Atinuke
Baby Goes to Market
Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus!
Kelly J. Baptist
The Electric Slide and Kai
Barbara E. Barber
Saturday at the New You 
Ronde & Tiki Barber
Teammates
By My Brother’s Side
Game Day
Jaxon Barnes
Kiley’s Purple Hat
Janet Costa Bates
Seaside Dream
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Papa’s Mark 
The Music in Derrick’s Heart
Off to School 
Garcelle Beauvais
I Am Mixed 
I Am Living in 2 Homes 
Daniel Bernstrom
Big Papa and the Time Machine
Becky Birtha
Grandma’s Pride
Lucky Beans
Joel Eboueme Bognomo
Madoulina
Arna Bontemps
You Can’t Pet a Possum
Mr. Kelso’s Lion
Marie Bradby
The Longest Wait 
Mama, Where Are You From? 
Once Upon a Farm
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Grandma’s Purse
Don’t Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table
Petronella Breinburg
Doctor Shawn (Formerly Doctor Sean)
Karamo Brown
I Am Perfectly Designed
Margery W. Brown
Baby Jesus Like My Brother
Tameka Fryer Brown
Around Our Way on Neighbor’s Day
Mahogany L. Browne
Woke Baby
Ashley Bryan
Can’t Scare Me! 
Turtle Knows Your Name 
Alecia Bryant
Our Father’s Time 
Nathan Bryon
Rocket Says Clean Up!
Adjoa J. Burrowes
Grandma’s Purple Flowers
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Me & Mama
Jeannette Franklin Caines
Just Us Women
I Need a Lunchbox 
Abby 
Chilly Stomach 
Window Wishing 
Daddy
Bebe Moore Campbell
Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry 
I Get So Hungry
Tisha Campbell-Martin
My Brother Doesn’t Want to Play: Autism From a Siblings Perspective 
Marjuan Canady
Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale 
Nick Cannon
Roc and Roe’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Mariah Carey
All I Want for Christmas Is You
Dorothy Carter
Bye, Mis’ Lela 
Wilhe’mina Miles: After the Stork Night
Sabrina Carter
Please Don’t Yell at We!
Tiffany Catledge
Mixed Me: A Tale of a Girl Who Is Both Black and White 
Tami Charles
All Because You Matter
Freedom Soup
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Imani in the Belly 
On the Day I Was Born 
Lucille Clifton
My Brother Fine with Me 
The Lucky Stone
Good, Says Jerome
All Us Come Cross the Water
Don’t You Remember 
Amifika 
Everett Anderson’s 1-2-3
Everett Anderson’s Nine Month Long
Everett Anderson’s Christmas Coming
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Overground Railroad
Marietta Collins (co-authors Marianne Celano and Ann Hazzard)
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
Bernardine Connelly
Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad 
Trish Cooke
So Much
Full, Full, Full of Love 
Marsha Cosman
A Children’s Book about a Multi-Racial Family 
Donald Crews
Bigmama’s 
Carousel 
Night at the Fair 
Shortcut
Pat Cummings
My Aunt Came Back
Jimmy Lee Did It 
Angel Baby
The Blue Lake 
Gavin Curtis
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Traci Dant
Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems   
Edwidge Danticat
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
The Last Mapou 
Gail Piernas-Davenport
Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas 
Viola Davis
Corduroy Takes a Bow
Monalisa DeGross
Donavan’s Double Trouble#2 
Penda Diakité
Tooth In Africa 
Taye Diggs
I Love You More Than…
Chocolate Me! 
Mixed Me!
Sylviane Anna Diouf
Bintou’s Braids 
Randy DuBurke
Little Mister 
Alice Faye Duncan
Just Like a Mama
Honey Baby Sugar Child
Willie Jerome
Christmas Soup 
Tony Dungy
We Chose You: A Book About Adoption, Family, and Forever Love 
You Can Do It! 
T. Obinkaram Echewa
The Ancestor Tree 
Zetta Elliott
Bird 
Marvie Ellis
Keisha’s Doors: An Autism Story  
Tacos Anyone? An Autism Story
Karen English
Speak English for Us, Marisol! 
Neeny Coming, Neeny Going 
The Baby on the Way
Big Wind Coming! 
Just Right Stew 
Strawberry Moon
Freddi Williams Evans
A Bus of Our Own
Hush Harbor: Praying in Secret
Shane W. Evans
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom 
Olu’s Dream 
Valerie Flournoy
The Patchwork Quilt#1 
Tanya’s Reunion #2
The Twins Strike Back
Bernette Ford
Little Red Riding Hood 
The Hunter Who Was King and Other African Tales
Ruth Forman
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon
Ashley Foxx
Keisha Cane and Her Very Sweet Tooth
Mylo Freeman
Sweet Dreams, Zaza 
Calling Dr. Zaza 
Celebrate with Zaza   
Every Girl Is a Princess  
Princess Arabella and the Giant Cake 
Princess Arabella Goes to School 
Princess Arabella Mixes Colors 
Princess Arabella’s Birthday
Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Madelia 
Denise Gillard
Music from the Sky 
Roz Grace
Trina’s Family Reunion 
Anthony’s Surprise
Eloise Greenfield
Good News 
She Come Bringing Me that Little Baby Girl 
Sister 
Me and Neesie
First Pink Light 
Talk About a Family
Darlene
Grandmama’s Joy 
Grandpa’s Face
Lisa’s Daddy and Daughter Day 
My Daddy and I
William and the Good Old Days 
Sweet Baby Coming 
Easter Parade    
Brothers & Sisters
Nathaniel Talking 
Monica Greenfield
Waiting for Christmas 
Nikki Grimes
Off to See the Sea
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
Poems in the Attic
Come Sunday 
Wild, Wild Hair
My Man Blue 
Stepping Out with Grandma Mac
Welcome, Precious 
Oh, Brother! 
Babys Bedtime 
Monica Gunning
A Shelter in Our Car 
Rosa Guy
Billy the Great
Regina Hanson
A Season for Mangoes
The Tangerine Tree
Janice N. Harrington
North 
Roberto Walks Home 
Busy-Busy Little Chick
Teresa Harris
Summer Jackson: Grown Up
Francine Haskins
Things I Like About Grandma 
I Remember “121”
Tonya Hegamin
Most Loved in All the World
Carolivia Herron
Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History
Nadia L. Hohn
Malaika’s Winter Carnival (The Malaika Series, 2)
Malaika’s Costume (The Malaika Series, 1)
Sandy Lynne Holman
Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?
bell hooks
Homemade Love 
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
The Train to Lulu’s
Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
Mac and Marie and the Train Toss Surprise 
Papa Tells Chita a Story 
What’s in Aunt Mary’s Room?
When Will Sarah Come?
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys 
Lulu’s Birthday 
Flower Girl Butterflies 
Toyomi Igus
When I Was Little 
Two Mrs. Gibsons
Nansubuga Nagaddya Isdahl
Sing to the Moon
Sleep Well, Siba & Saba
Nancy Johnson James
Brown
Synthia Saint James
Sunday
Angela Johnson
Tell Me a Story, Mama 
When I am Old with You 
Do Like Kyla 
One of Three
The Leaving Morning
Julius
The Girl Who Wore Snakes 
Joshua’s Night Whispers 
Joshua By The Sea
The Aunt in Our House 
The Rolling Store 
The Wedding 
Down the Winding Road 
I Dream of Trains 
Lily Brown’s Paintings
Dinah Johnson
Quinnie Blue
Sunday Week
Dolores Johnson
Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family
What Will Mommy Do When I’m at School? 
Grandma’s Hands 
Papa’s Stories 
Your Dad Was Just Like You 
My Mom is My Show-and-Tell 
Vincent L. Johnson
Daddy’s Good Cookin’ 
Joy Jones
Tambourine Moon
June Jordan
New Life, New Room
Lynn Joseph
Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story
An Island Christmas
Mary Dixon Lake
My Circus Family 
Noelle Lamperti
Brown Like Me 
Shabazz Larkin
The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter
Denize Lauture
Father and Son     
Spike & Tonya Lewis Lee
Please, Baby, Please 
Please, Puppy, Please 
Deborah LeFalle
Bitty Brown Babe (Board Book)
Kathleen D. Lindsey
Sweet Potato Pie
Loretta Long
Courtney’s Birthday Party
Kelly Starling Lyons
Tea Cakes for Tosh 
Hope’s Gift 
Ziggy Marley
I Love You Too
Sharon Bell Mathis
The Hundred Penny Box 
Fredrick & Patricia McKissack
Messy Bessey’s Family Reunion
Messy Bessey’s Closet
Patricia McKissack
Never Forgotten
The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll
Ma Dear’s Aprons
Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
Angela Shelf Medearis
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
Snug in Mama’s Arms
Our People
Tony Medina
Deshawn Days 
Christmas Makes Me Think 
Calvin Miles
Calvin’s Christmas Wish 
Margaree King Mitchell
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Granddaddy’s Gift
Yesenia Moises
Stella’s Stellar Hair
Isabell Monk
Hope
Family 
Blackberry Stew
Sundaira Morninghouse (Carletta Carrington Wilson)
Habari Gani? What’s the News? 
Ruth Morris-Graham
The Happy Sound
Allyson Neal
Ava Lillian’s Blessing 
Ava Lillian Goes to School 
Ava the Angel 
Ava Lillian’s Christmas Play 
Ava Lillian’s Ballet Recital 
Marilyn Nelson
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar   
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Who Will I Be, Lord? 
Pierre Yves Njeng
Vacation in the Village: A Story from West Africa 
Jerdine Nolen
In My Momma’s Kitchen 
Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life 
Christmas in the Time of Billy Lee 
Lissette Norman
My Feet Are Laughing 
Isaac O. Olaleye
Lake of the Big Snake 
Denise Lewis Patrick
Red Dancing Shoes 
Peekaboo, Baby! 
Ma Dear’s Old Green House 
No Diapers for Baby! 
Holly Robinson Peete
My Brother Charlie
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf
Gail Piernas-Davenport
Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas 
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Mim’s Christmas Jam 
Gloria Jean Pinkney
Back Home 
Brian Pinkney
Time for Kenny     
Hush, Little Baby
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick 
Jarrent & Jerome Pumphrey
The Old Truck
Vashanti Rahaman
O Christmas Tree
Faith Ringgold
Tar Beach
Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House
Bonjour Lonnie 
Adjai Robinson
Kasho and the Twin Flutes
Sharon Robinson
Jackie’s Gift
Belinda Rochelle
Jewels
Melodye Benson Rosales
‘Twas the Night B’Fore Christmas: An African-American Version 
Itah Sadu
A Touch of the Zebras
Irene Smalls
Kevin and His Dad 
Jonathan and His Mommy
My Nana and Me 
Because You’re Lucky
My Pop Pop and Me 
Dawn and the Round To-it
Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade: The Johnkankus
Father’s Day Blues: What Do You Do About Father’s Day When All You Have Are Mothers?
A Strawbeater’s Thanksgiving
Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel
Patricia Smith
Janna and the Kings 
Sherri Graves Smith
Is My Cup Empty?
Will Smith
Just the Two of Us 
Ethel Footman Smothers
The Hard-Times Jar 
Auntee Edna
Javaka Steptoe
The Jones Family Express 
John Steptoe
Baby Says (Board Book Ed.)
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Stevie 
Baby Says 
Birthday 
Daddy Is a Monster…Sometimes 
My Special Best 
Bettye Stroud
Dance Y’all 
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom 
Christine Taylor-Butler
Just For You!: A Mom Like No Other
The Lost Tribes
Garen Thomas
Santa’s Kwanzaa 
Joyce Carol Thomas
The Gospel Cinderella 
The Angels Lullaby 
The Three Witches 
Joy! 
Justin Tuck
Home-Field Advantage
Gabrielle Union
Welcome to the Party
David & Mutiya Visions
Who’s That Crying
Daddy Loves His Baby Girl 
Mildred Pitts Walter
Little Sister Big Trouble
Donna L. Washington
Li’l Rabbit’s Kwanzaa 
Renee Watson
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen
Cynthia G. Williams
Enid and the Church Fire (Our Neighborhood)
Enid and the Homecoming (Our Neighborhood)
Rita Williams-Garcia
Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee
Sherley Anne Williams
Working Cotton
Girls Together
Ken Wilson-Max
Astro Girl
Furaha Means Happy: A Book of Swahili Words
Zelda in the City
Marshalette Wise
Johnny’s Birthday Surprise: Shhhh!!!! It’s a Secret!  
Bye-Bye Big Bully 
Jacqueline Woodson
This is the Rope 
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past 
Sweet, Sweet Memory 
Visiting Day
Our Gracie Aunt 
Coming on Home Soon 
Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Granddaughter Necklace 
Adrienne Yabouza
The Magic Doll: A Children’s Book Inspired by African Art
Christine Young-Robinson
Chicken Wing