This 2020 Winter/Spring new releases preview does not feature all the new titles for the months listed. As usual, there will be a separate post for each month. Go here to see the list for January 2020. Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani and A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison are additions to January’s list. The preview titles are listed according to their release date. Have fun pre-ordering, decision, decisions, decisions!
February 2020
Hey, Baby!: A Baby’s Day in Doodles
Andrea Pippins | Schwartz & Wade | PB | February 4 | Amazon | IndieBound
A Girl Like Me
Angela Johnson | Nina Crews | Millbrook Press | PB | February 4 | Amazon | IndieBound
I Am a Promise Shelly
Ann Fraser Pryce | Ashley Rousseau | Rachel Moss | Black Sheep | PB | February 4 | Amazon | IndieBound
King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender | Scholastic Press | February 4 | Amazon | IndieBound
Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)
Justina Ireland | Balzer + Bray |YA | February 4 | Amazon | IndieBound
Cool Cuts
Mechal Renee Roe | Doubleday BYR | PB | February 11 | Amazon | IndieBound
Gloom Town
Ronald L. Smith | Clarion Books | MG | February 11 | Amazon | IndieBound
Who Did It First? 50 Politicians, Activists, and Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the World
Jay Leslie | Alex Hart | Nneka Myers | Henry Holt and Co. BYR | February 11 | Amazon | IndieBound
I’m Gonna Push Through!
Jasmyn Wright | Shannon Wright | Atheneum BYR | PB | February 18 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Sound of Stars
Alechia Dow | Inkyard Press | YA | February 25 | Amazon | IndieBound
March 2020
I Believe I Can
Grace Byers | Keturah A. Bobo | Balzer + Bray | PB | March 3 | Amazon | IndieBound
Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes | Little, Brown BYR | MG | March 3 | Amazon | IndieBound
Summer in the City (Mango Delight Volume 2) (Cover Image Unavailable)
Fracaswell Hyman | Sterling Children’s Books | MG | March 3, 2020 | Amazon | IndieBound
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM
Tonya Bolden | Abrams Books for Young Readers | MG | March 3 | Amazon | IndieBound
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
Mahogany L. Browne | Elizabeth Acevedo | Olivia Gatwood | Theodore Taylor III | Roaring Brook | MG | March 10 | Amazon | IndieBound
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Jason Reynolds | Ibram X. Kendi | Little, Brown BYR | YA | March 10 | Amazon | IndieBound
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
Patrice Caldwell (Editor) | Viking BYR | YA | March 10 | Amazon | IndieBound
When You Were Everything
Ashley Woodfolk | Delacorte Press | YA | March 10 | Amazon | IndieBound
Who Got Game?: Baseball: Amazing but True Stories!
Derrick Barnes | John John Bajet | Workman Publishing | MG | March 17 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Only Black Girls in Town
Brandy Colbert | Little, Brown BYR | MG | March 24 | Amazon | IndieBound
April 2020
Tiara’s Hat Parade
Kelly Starling Lyons | Nicole Tadgell | Albert Whitman & Co | PB | April 1 | Amazon | IndieBound
Who Will You Be?
Andrea Pippins | Schwartz & Wade | PB | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
23 The Magic in Changing Your Stars (Cover Image Unavailable)
Leah Henderson | Sterling Children’s Books | MG | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
Bedtime Bonnet
Nancy Redd | Random House BYR | PB | April 7 | Amazon | IndieBound
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford | Michele Wood | Candlewick | MG/PB | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
What Lane?
Torrey Maldonado | Nancy Paulsen Books | YA | April 14 | Amazon | IndieBound
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
Evette Dionne | Viking BYR | MG | April 21 | Amazon | IndieBound
I Love Me!
LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss | Beth Hughes | Beaming Books | PB | April 21 | Amazon | IndieBound
Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson | Bloomsbury Children’s Books | MG | April 28 | Amazon | IndieBound
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
George M. Johnson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | YA | April 28 | Amazon | IndieBound
May 2020
My Rainy-Day Rocket Ship
Markette Sheppard | Charly Palmer | Denene Millner/S&S BYR | PB | May 5 | Amazon | IndieBound
Serena Williams—G.O.A.T: Making the Case for the Greatest of All Time
Tami Charles | Sterling Children’s Books | MG | May 5 | Amazon | IndieBound
Maya and the Rising Dark
Rena Barron | HMH BYR | May 5 | MG | Amazon | IndieBound
It Doesn’t Take a Genius
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich | Six Foot Press| MG | May 5 | Amazon | IndieBound
Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperTeen | YA | May 5 | Amazon | IndieBound
Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender | Balzer + Bray | YA | May 12 | Amazon | IndieBound
Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles
Michelle Meadows | Ebony Glenn | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | PB | May 19 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Magnificent Makers #1: How to Test a Friendship
Theanne Griffith | Reggie Brown | Random House BYR | ChBk | May 19, 2020 | Amazon | IndieBound
Home Home
Lisa Allen-Agostini | Delacorte Press | YA | May 26 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Gilded Ones (Deathless)
Namina Forna | Delacorte Press | YA | May 26 | Amazon | IndieBound
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