Fiction > Picture > Self-Discovery/Identity/Self-Love

Debbie Allen

Dancing in the Wings 

Derrick Barnes

I Am Every Good Thing

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Ysaye M. Barnwell

No Mirrors in My Nana’s House: Musical CD and Book

Garcelle Beauvais 

I Am Awesome 

James Berry

A Story about Afiya

Mahogany L. Browne

Woke Baby

Betty K. Bynum

I’m A Brilliant Little Black Boy!

I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!  

Cozbi A. Cabrera

My Hair Is a Garden

Charisse Carney-Nunes

Nappy

Tami Charles

All Because You Matter

Katina Chimney

Keilah West: The World’s Greatest Klutz

Misty Copeland

Firebird 

Alexis De Veaux

An Enchanted Hair Tale 

Taye Diggs

Chocolate Me!

Sylviane Anna Diouf

Bintou’s Braids 

Tony Dungy

You Can Do It!

Mari Evans

Look at Me!

Dwayne Ferguson

The Amazing Adventures of Abiola

Bernette Ford

Bright Eyes, Brown Skin

Eloise Greenfield

Darlene 

Alesia 

Nikki Grimes

Wild, Wild Hair 

Poems in the Attic

Meena Harris 

Ambitious Girl

Sandy Lynne Holman

Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? 

Grandma Says Our Hair Has Flair 

bell hooks

Happy to Be Nappy 

Skin Again

Nancy Johnson James

Brown

Myles E. Johnson

Large Fears

Vincent L. Johnson

Of Corn Silk and Black Braids 

Frances F. Jones

Picture Day Book 

Brian Jordan

I Told You I Can Play! 

Saccheen Laing

The Curly Hair Club

Noelle Lamperti

Brown Like Me 

Queen Latifah

Queen of the Scene

Julius Lester

Shining

Robert Liu-Trujillo

Furqan’s First Flattop

L Marroquin

My Hair is Magic!

Phil Mendez

The Black Snowman

Sharee Miller

Don’t Touch My Hair!

Princess Hair

Night Time Routine

Yesenia Moises

Stella’s Stellar Hair

Thylias Moss

I Want to Be 

Christopher Myers

Wings 

Walter Dean Myers

Looking Like Me

Marilyn Nelson

Lubaya’s Quiet Roar

Tina Olajide

Emi’s Curly Coily, Cotton Candy Hair

Brian Pinkney

On the Ball 

Jasmine Pruitt

My Color is Special

James E. Ransome

Gunner, Football Hero 

Calida Garcia Rawles

Same Difference 

Nancy Redd

Bedtime Bonnet

Faith Ringgold

Bonjour Lonnie

Belinda Rochelle

When Jo Louis Won the Title 

Dennis Rodman

Dennis the Wild Bull 

Itah Sadu

Name Calling

Vanessa Santiago-Jerman

Love My Kinky, Love My Curly, Love Me

Nik Scott

My Hair is So Happy

Olive Senior

Boonoonoonous Hair

Anna Carries Water

Crystal Senter-Brown

Gabby Saturday 

Irene Smalls

Don’t Say Ain’t

Nikkolas Smith

My Hair is Poofy and That’s Okay

Crystal Swain-Bates

I’m a Pretty Princess

Big Hair Don’t Care

The Colorful Adventures of Zoe & Star: A Coloring and Activity Book

The Colorful Adventures of Cody & Jay: A Coloring and Activity Book 

Natasha Tarpley

I Love My Hair!

Christine Taylor-Butler

I Am Smart

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Your Name Is a Song

Pamela M. Tuck

The Adventure of Sheldon, the Mushroom 

Nicole Updegraff

I Love my Cotton Candy Hair! (A girl named Charlie presents…)

David & Mutiya Visions

Disabilities

What Makes Me Beautiful? 

Alice Walker

Finding the Green Stone

Tricia Elam Walker

Nana Akua Goes to School

Alonda Williams

Penny and the Magic Puffballs: Roxie’s First Day

Penny and the Magic Puffballs

Jacqueline Woodson

The Day You Begin

Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Something Beautiful 

Camille Yarbrough

Cornrows

Tamika and the Wisdom Rings