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John Agard
Brer Rabbit, the Great Tug-O-War 
Kwame Alexander
Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume
Surf’s Up
Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band 
Maya Angelou
Maya’s World: Izak of Lapland 
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Atinuke
Catch that Chicken
Starr T. Balmer
Scary, Scary Sasha
Daniel Bernstrom
Gator, Gator, Gator!
One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
James Berry
Don’t Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird 
First Palm Trees 
Arna Bontemps
The Fast Sooner Hound
You Can’t Pet a Possum 
Mr. Kelso’s Lion 
Petronella Breinburg
Stories from the Caribbean
Ashley Bryan
Beautiful Blackbird 
The Night Has Ears: African Proverbs 
Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh-Huh 
The Story of Lightning and Thunder 
Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales
Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum 
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Poems 
The Cat’s Purr 
The Dancing Granny 
Adventures of Aku
Mariah Carey
All I Want for Christmas Is You 
Faustin Charles
The Selfish Crocodile Book of Colours 
The Selfish Crocodile Book of Numbers
Selfish Crocodile Book of Words 
The Selfish Crocodile
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Imani in the Belly 
Gregory Christie
Mousetropolis
Lesa Cline-Ransome
Whale Trails, Before and Now
Trish Cooke
How Anansi Got His Stories
No Dinner for Anansi
Rashida Costa
The A to Z Animals and The Mystery of The Missing Fish
Tommy and The Bumper Boats
Pat Cummings
Harvey Moon, Museum Boy
Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale
Purrrrr 
Simone Da Costa
Emily Rose’s Day at the Farm
A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book about Animals from A to Z
Viola Davis
Corduroy Takes a Bow
Ruby Dee
Two Ways To Count To Ten 
Baba Wagué Diakité
A Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale
The Hatseller and the Monkeys
The Magic Gourd 
Mee-An and the Magic Serpent
Cynthia Dickerson
The Sun, Cat and Dog: Baby’s First Book
Zetta Elliott
Fox & Crow: A Christmas Tale
Karen English
Speak English for Us, Marisol! 
Charles George Esperanza
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!)
Jim Flying High
Sharon G. Flake
You Are Not a Cat!
Bernette Ford
No More Diapers for Ducky! 
No More Biting for Billy Goat! (Ducky and Piggy)
No More Hitting for Little Hamster! (Ducky and Piggy)
No More Pacifier for Piggy! (Ducky and Piggy)
No More Blanket for Lambkin! (Ducky and Piggy) 
No More Bottles for Bunny! (Ducky and Piggy)
Princess Puppy
Ballet Kitty: Ballet Class
Ballet Kitty: Christmas Recital
First Snow 
Nappy Duck and Potty Piggy  
Little Red Riding Hood
The Hunter Who Was King and Other African Tales
No More Dummy for Piggy!
Kirk Franklin
How Do Alligators Praise the Lord?
Nikki Giovanni
The Grasshopper’s Song: An Aesop’s Fable Revisited
Mildred Glover
Buddy Heads for Home
Whoopi Goldberg
Alice 
Lorenz B. Graham
Song of the Boat
Eloise Greenfield
THINKER: My Puppy Poet and Me
Africa Dream
When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War
On My Horse (Let’s Read Aloud) 
Nikki Grimes
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
When Gorilla Goes Walking
Rosa Guy
Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal
Virginia Hamilton
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl 
Jaguarundi 
Dara Harper
No Glasses For Me
Janice N. Harrington
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Busy-Busy Little Chick 
Gwendolyn Hooks
Can I Have a Pet?
The Mystery Of The Missing Dog
Langston Hughes
Sail Away 
P.B. Jeffrey
The Flyers and The Crawlers: An Anti-Bullying Book
Angela Johnson
Julius 
The Girl Who Wore Snakes 
Mama Bird, Baby Birds 
Dolores Johnson
The Best Bug to Be
June Jordan
Kimako’s Story 
Wanuri Kahiu
The Wooden Camel
Ricardo Keens-Douglas
The Miss Meow Pageant 
Yolanda King
Curlilocks and the Three Pink Pandas
Mary Dixon Lake
I Love Bugs
Royal Drum: An Ashanti Tale
Shabazz Larkin
The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter
Spike & Tonya Lewis Lee
Please, Puppy, Please 
Julius Lester
More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others
Further Tales of Uncle Remus: The Misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and Other Creatures 
How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have and other Tales 
Sam and the Tigers
Kevin Lewis
Not Inside This House!
The Runaway Pumpkin 
My Truck is Stuck! 
Dinosaur Dinosaur
Kelly Starling Lyons
One More Dino on the Floor
Nilah Magruder
How to Find a Fox
Fredrick & Patricia McKissack
Bugs!
Patricia McKissack
Itching And Twitching 
Nettie Jo’s Friends
Where Crocodiles Have Wings
So Who’s Dr. Rabbit?
Who Is Coming?
Robert McKissack
Itching And Twitching 
Phil Mendez
Kissyfur of Paddlecab County
Kissyfur and the Birthday Hugs 
Tololwa M. Mollel
Kele’s Secret
Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale
Ruth Morris-Graham
The Happy Sound
Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison
The Tortoise and the Hare
Who’s Got Game?: The Lion or the Mouse?
Who’s Got Game?: Poppy or the Snake?
Who’s Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?
Christopher Myers
Black Cat 
Walter Dean Myers
The Blues of Flats Brown 
Mr. Monkey and the Gotcha Bird: An Original Tale
Looking for the Easy Life 
The Story of the Three Kingdoms 
The Dragon Takes a Wife
Three Swords for Granada
Kadir Nelson
If You Plant a Seed
Baby Bear
Marilyn Nelson
Ostrich and Lark 
Snook Alone
Jerdine Nolen
Freedom Bird: A Tale of Hope and Courage
Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm
Nnedi Okorafor
Chicken in the Kitchen
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Peggony-po: A Whale of a Tale
Jerry Pinkney
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Grasshopper & the Ants
The Tortoise & the Hare
Puss in Boots
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Three Little Kittens
The Lion & the Mouse
Little Red Riding Hood
The Little Red Hen
Noah’s Ark
Aesop’s Fables
Dylan Pritchett
The First Music
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Belle, The Last Mule at Gee’s Bend: A Civil Rights Story
Desmond Reid
Dana Meets the Cow Who Lost Its Moo 
Shawn L. Reid
Fogo the Frog: Stranger Danger
LaTonya Richardson
Going On A Bear Hunt
Rosa Roberts-Johnson
The Princess and the Penguins
Dennis Rodman
Dennis the Wild Bull
Andrea Ross
I’m Bear: How Chester Got His Name
Vanessa Santiago-Jerman
Yancy the Dancing Giraffe
Sherri Graves Smith
Benny Beaver’s Game Day Rules 
Aubie’s Game Day Rules 
Hairy Dawg’s Game Day Rules 
Brutus Buckeye’s Game Day Rules
Counting with UGA
Nittany Lion’s Game Day Rules 
Purdue Pete’s Game Day Rules 
UGA Teaches the Alphabet 
Aubie Teaches the Alphabet 
Game Day Rules with Wally the Green Monster 
Cy’s Game Day Rules 
Counting with Aubie 
Big Al Teaches the Alphabet
Bruiser’s Game Day Rules
John Steptoe
The Story of Jumping Mouse 
Jeffrey Bear Cleans Up His Act
Bettye Stroud
Dance Y’all
Dorothea Taylor
There’s a Dragon in My Closet
Christine Taylor-Butler
A Pony to Love
Little Lamb’s Easter Surprise
Joyce Carol Thomas
What’s the Hurry, Fox?: And Other Animal Stories
Aisha Toombs
Nerdi Bunny and the Big Bayou Gator Grief
Nerdi Bunny and the Busy Bee Bully Bear Business
Patricia E. Van West
The Crab Man
Donna L. Washington
Li’l Rabbit’s Kwanzaa 
C. JoVan William
Uncle Bear’s Mystery Valentine 
Veggie’s Bully #2
Rita Williams-Garcia
Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee
Sheron Williams
Imani’s Music 
Ken Wilson-Max
Max 
Max Loves Sunflowers 
Max’s Money 
Max’s Letter
Max Paints the House
Max’s Starry Night
Lun Ye’ Hygh
Transformation
Resilient
Christine Young-Robinson
Isra the Butterfly Gets Caught For Show And Tell