The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives (September 1, 2019)
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me (2018)
PAR-TAY! Dance of the Veggies (and Their Friends) (2018)

The Great Migration: Journey to the North (2010) 

Brothers  & Sisters (2008) 

When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War (2006) 

The Friendly Four (2006) 

In the Land of Words (2003) 

Honey, I Love (2002) 

How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea (2002) 

I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs (2001)

Sweet Baby Coming (2000)

Water, Water (1999) 

Easter Parade (1998)

Angels (1998)

For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me (1997)

Kia Tanisha (1997) 

Kia Tanisha Drives Her Car (1997) 

On My Horse (Let's Read Aloud) (1995) 

Aaron and Gayla's Alphabet Book (1993) 

William and the Good Old Days (1993)

Koya DeLaney and the Good Girl Blues (1992) 

Big Friend, Little Friend (1991) 

I Make Music (1991) 

Lisa's Daddy and Daughter Day (1991) 

My Doll, Keshia (1991)

My Daddy and I (1991) 

Night on Neighborhood Street (1991) 

Africa Dream (1989) 

Nathaniel Talking (1989) 

Under the Sunday Tree (1988) 

Grandpa's Face (1988)

Daydreamers (1981)

Alesia (1981)

Darlene (1980)

Grandmama's Joy (1980) 

Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir (1979) 

Honey, I Love and Other Poems (1978) 

I Can Do It by Myself (1978) 

Talk About a Family (1978) 

Good News (1977) 

Mary McLeod Bethune (1977) 

First Pink Light (1976)          

Me and Neesie (1975) 

Paul Robeson (1975)

She Come Bringing Me that Little Baby Girl (1974)

Sister (1974) 

Rosa Parks (1973)