Fiction > Picture > Holidays

New Year’s Day

Glenda Armand

Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese: A Story of Food, Family, and Freedom

Gail Piernas-Davenport

Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas

Valentine’s Day

Jabari Asim

My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day (Board Book)

C.JoVan Williams

Uncle Bear’s Mystery Valentine

Mardi Gras

Fatima Shaik

On Mardi Gras Day

Easter

Eloise Greenfield

Easter Parade

Christine Taylor-Butler

Little Lamb’s Easter Surprise

Mother’s Day

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Father’s Day

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Juneteenth

Glenda Armand

The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story

Floyd Cooper

Juneteenth for Mazie

Van G. Garrett

Juneteenth

Angela Johnson

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

Lavaille Lavette

Jayylen’s Juneteenth Surprise

Kim Taylor

A Flag for Juneteenth

Natasha Tripplett 

Juneteenth Is

Carole Boston Weatherford

Juneteenth Jamboree

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Freedom’s Gifts: A Juneteenth Story

Halloween

Jabari Asim

My Baby Loves Halloween (Board Book)

Paul Edward Davis

The Adventures of Old School Brown Hip Hop Halloween

Irene Smalls

Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern

Thanksgiving

Irene Smalls

A Strawbeater’s Thanksgiving 

Christmas

Maya Angelou

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

Jabari Asim

My Baby Loves Christmas (Board Book)

Frank J. Berrios

One Good Night ’til Christmas (Board Book)

Margery W. Brown

Baby Jesus Like My Brother

Ashley Bryan

Who Built the Stable?: A Nativity Poem

Nick Cannon

Roc and Roe’s Twelve Days of Christmas

Mariah Carey

The Christmas Princess

All I Want for Christmas Is You

Lucille Clifton

Everett Anderson’s Christmas Coming

Alice Faye Duncan

Christmas Soup

Bernette Ford

Ballet Kitty: Christmas Recital

Monica Greenfield

Waiting for Christmas

Nikki Grimes

Under the Christmas Tree

Voices of Christmas

Carla Hall

Carla and the Christmas Cornbread  

Virginia Hamilton

The Bells of Christmas

Meena Harris

The Truth About Mrs. Claus

Maria Hoskins

Christmas Night on the Farm

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

Chita’s Christmas Tree

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Hold Christmas In Your Heart: African American Songs, Poems, and Stories for the Holidays

Langston Hughes

Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems

Tiffany D. Jackson

Santa in the City

Lynn Joseph

An Island Christmas

Yolanda T. Marshall

Christmas Elves Being Themselves

A Piece of Black Cake for Santa

Fredrick & Patricia McKissack

Messy Bessey’s Holidays

Patricia McKissack

The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

Tony Medina

Christmas Makes Me Think

Follow-Up Letters to Santa From Kids Who Never Got a Response 

Calvin Miles

Calvin’s Christmas Wish

Charlotte Nebres

Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History

Jerdine Nolen

Christmas in the Time of Billy Lee

Katie Otey

Every Other Christmas

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Mim’s Christmas Jam

Vashanti Rahaman

O Christmas Tree

Divali Rose

James E. Ransome

A Joyful Christmas: A Treasury of New and Classic Songs, Poems, and Stories for the Holiday

Nancy Redd

The Real Santa

Sharon Robinson

Jackie’s Gift

Melodye Benson Rosales

‘Twas the Night B’Fore Christmas: An African-American Version

Connie Schofield-Morrison

I Got the Christmas Spirit

Lyn Sisson-Talbert/David E. Talbert

The Perfect Gift: A Jingle Jangle Story

The Square Root of Possible: A Jingle Jangle Story

Irene Smalls

Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade: The Johnkankus

Nikki Shannon Smith

The Little Christmas Elf (Little Golden Book)

Garen Thomas

Santa’s Kwanzaa

Lala Watkins

Little Santa’s Workshop (Board Book)

Edger White

Omar at Christmas

Kwanzaa

Juwanda Ford

Together for Kwanzaa

Angela Shelf Medearis

Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story

Sundaira Morninghouse (Carletta Carrington Wilson)

Habari Gani? What’s the News?: A Kwanzaa Story

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Seven Candles for Kwanzaa

Garen Thomas

Santa’s Kwanzaa

Dimitrea Tokunbo

The Sound of Kwanzaa

Donna L. Washington

Li’l Rabbit’s Kwanzaa

Multiple Holidays

Tameka Fryer Brown

Twelve Dinging Doorbells