Davida Adedjouma

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children 

John Agard

Wriggle Piggy Toes

The Calypso Alphabet 

Elizabeth Alexander

Praise Song for the Day 

Kwame Alexander

The Undefeated 

How to Read a Book

Maya Angelou

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem 

Derrick Barnes

I Am Every Good Thing

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Ysaye M. Barnwell

We Are One: Book and Musical 

Daniel Beaty

Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me 

James Berry

Celebration Song 

Rudine Sims Bishop

Wonders: The Best Children’s Poems of Effie Lee Newsome 

Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Just Like Me

Tameka Fryer Brown

Brown Baby Lullaby

Mahogany L. Browne

Woke Baby

Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something from Everything 

Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry 

Gwendolyn Brooks

Bronzeville Boys and Girls 

Grace Byers

I Believe I Can

Charisse Carney-Nunes

I Dream for You a World: A Covenant for Our Children 

Lucille Clifton

The Black B C’s 

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage As the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History  

Quilt Alphabet

Quilt Counting

Michelle Cook

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change 

Kwame Dawes

I Saw Your Face 

Leo Dillon

Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That

Samara Cole Doyon

Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Alice Faye Duncan

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

Karen English

Speak to Me (And I Will Listen between the Lines)

Tom Feelings

Daydreamers

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

My America

Nikki Giovanni

I Am Loved

Spin a Soft Black Song 

Vacation Time: Poems for Children 

The Sun Is So Quiet    

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat 

Knoxville, Tennessee     

Eloise Greenfield

The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

Honey, I Love 

Brothers & Sisters 

Honey, I Love and Other Poems 

Daydreamers

In the Land of Words

When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War

Brittney Monique Grimes

Poetry for a Child by a Child: Poems and Pictures

Nikki Grimes

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 

Talkin’ About Bessie 

Hopscotch Love

Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s 

Shoe Magic 

A Pocketful of Poems 

It’s Raining Laughter 

Thanks a Million

Is It Far to Zanzibar?: Poems about Tanzania

Monica Gunning

Under the Breadfruit Tree: Island Poems 

America, My New Home

Not a Copper Penny in Me House

Nadia Hohn

A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Hands Can 

Wade Hudson

Pass It On: African American Poetry for Children 

Toyomi Igus

I See the Rhythm 

I See the Rhythm of Gospel 

Angela Johnson

A Girl Like Me

Daddy Calls Me Man

Those Building Men 

Angela Joy

Black Is a Rainbow Color

Shana Keller

Fly, Firefly

Barbara A. Kellom

Magic, Giggles and Love

Amyra León

Freedom, We Sing 

Lessie Jones Little

Children of Long Ago 

Kelly Starling Lyons

Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations

Tony Medina

Love to Langston 

I and I Bob Marley

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

Langston Hughes: Great American Poet

James Weldon Johnson: “Lift every voice and sing”

Sundaira Morninghouse

Nightfeathers

Walter Dean Myers

Looking Like Me

Jazz 

Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse 

Isaac O. Olaleye

The Distant Talking Drum 

Eugene Useni Perkins

Hey Black Child

When You Grow Up: Poems for Children

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day

Sandra L. Pinkney

A Rainbow All Around Me 

Read and Rise 

Belinda Rochelle

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art 

Mechal Renee Roe

Cool Cuts

Happy Hair 

Allison Samuels

Christmas Soul: African American Holiday Stories 

Ntozake Shange

I Live in Music 

Charlotte Watson Sherman

Brown Sugar Babe

Charles R. Smith

I Am America 

I Am the World 

Short Takes: Fast-Break Basketball Poetry: Fast-Break Poetry

Brown Sugar Babies 

28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World 

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson 

Hoop Kings 

Hoop Queens 

Jada Pinket Smith

Girls Hold Up This World

Dorothy S. Strickland

Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience 

Don Tate

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton 

Joyce Carol Thomas

The Blacker the Berry 

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea 

I Have Heard of a Land 

A Mother’s Heart, A Daughter’s Love: Poems for Us to Share

Crowning Glory

Alice Walker

Langston Hughes, American Poet

There Is A Flower At The Tip Of My Nose Smelling Me 

Carole Boston Weatherford

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Michelle Obama: First Mom

The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights

The Sound That Jazz Makes

Birmingham: 1963