What an amazing list of children’s and young adult books slated for release in January 2022. This list has 60 titles! Anne Wynter, who debuted this year with Everybody in the Red Brick Building, has two adorable board books coming out on January 4th. Award-winning illustrator, Charly Palmer, can now add author to his bio. His picture book, The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale, is described as a “clever, energetic story.”
There are so many great fiction and nonfiction books to explore in many genres, from familiar names to new creatives. Go here to meet author Adrea Theodore whose debut picture book, A History of Me, releases on January 18th. Pre-order now!
What are your thoughts on the new releases coming in January 2022? Leave a comment below. Happy Reading!
1. Delphine Denise and the Mardi Gras Prize
Brittany Mazique | Sawyer Cloud | Albert Whitman & Company | January 1 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
2. Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story (Girls Survive)
Nikki Shannon Smith | Markia Jenai | Stone Arch Books | January 1 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
3. Hands On! (Board Book)
Anne Wynter | Alea Marley | Balzer + Bray | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
4. One Big Day (Board Book)
Anne Wynter | Alea Marley | Balzer + Bray | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
5. Bright Brown Baby
Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Orchard Books | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
6. I’m Growing Great
Mechal Renee Roe | Doubleday BYR | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
7. A History of Me
Adrea Theodore | Erin Robinson | Neal Porter Books | January 18 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
8. The Year We Learned to Fly
Jacqueline Woodson | Rafael López | Penguin/Paulsen | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
9. Daddy Speaks Love
Leah Henderson | E. B. Lewis | Nancy Paulsen Books | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
10. The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale
Charly Palmer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
11. Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader
Michelle Duster | Laura Freeman | Henry Holt and Co. BYR | January 4 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
12. Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic
Kelly Starling Lyons | Nina Mata | HarperCollins | January 4 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
13. She Persisted: Coretta Scott King
Kelly Starling Lyons | Gillian Flint | Philomel Books | January 4 | Chp Bk | Amazon | IndieBound
14. Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Tonya Bolden | National Geographic Kids | January 4 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
15. Kamala Harris: A National Geographic Kids Leveled Reader Biography
Tonya K. Grant | National Geographic Kids | January 4 | Chp Bk | Amazon | IndieBound
16. Stacey Abrams: A National Geographic Kids Leveled Reader Biography
Melissa H. Mwai | National Geographic Kids | January 4 | Chp Bk | Amazon | IndieBound
17. Karma’s World #1: The Great Shine-a-Thon Showcase!
Halcyon Person | Yesenia Moises | Scholastic Inc | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
18. Operation Sisterhood
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich | Crown BYR | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
19. Pizza My Heart: A Wish Novel
Rhiannon Richardson | Scholastic Inc. | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
20. Symbiosis (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #3)
Nic Stone | Scholastic Inc. | January 4 | MG | Amazon | IndieBound
21. The Girl in The Lake
India Hill Brown | Scholastic Press | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
22. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day
Kathlyn J. Kirkwood | Steffi Walthall | Versify | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
23. How to Fight Racism: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice (Young Reader’s Edition)
Jemar Tisby | Josh Mosey | Zonderkidz | January 4 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
24. The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey
Echo Brown | Christy Ottaviano Books | January 4 | YA | Amazon | IndieBound
25. African Town
Charles Waters | Irene Latham | G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR | January 4 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
26. One True Loves
Elise Bryant | Balzer + Bray | January 4 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
27. The Kindred
Alechia Dow | Inkyard Press | January 4 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
28. Fly
Brittany J. Thurman | Anna Cunha | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
29. Who Are Your People?
Bakari Sellers | Reggie Brown | Quill Tree Books | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
30. Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
Alice Faye Duncan | Keturah A. Bobo | Thomas Nelson | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
31. When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s “Lost Generation” and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision
Yolanda Gladden | Tamara Pizzoli | Keisha Morris | HarperCollins | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
32. Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Alice Faye Duncan | Charly Palmer | Calkins Creek | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
33. You Are Not Alone
Alphabet Rockers | Tommy Soulati Shepherd | Ashley Evans | Sourcebooks Explore | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
34. The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice
Carole Boston Weatherford | Laura Freeman | Random House Studio | January 11 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
35. Mango Delight : Mango All the Time (Bk. 3)
Fracaswell Hyman | Sterling Children’s Books | January 11 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
36. When Winter Robeson Came
Brenda Woods | Nancy Paulsen Books | January 11 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
37. Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks: A Who HQ Graphic Novel
Insha Fitzpatrick | Who HQ | Abelle Hayford | Penguin Workshop | January 11 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
38. Vinyl Moon
Mahogany L. Browne | Crown BYR | January 11 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
39. Ain’t Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds | Jason Griffin | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy | January 11 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
40. Ashes of Gold (Wings of Ebony, Bk. 2)
J. Elle | S & S BYR/ Denene Millner | January 11 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
41. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps
Charlotte Watson Sherman | Geneva Bowers |Astra Young Readers | January 18 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
42. Because Claudette
Tracey Baptiste | Tonya Engel | Dial Books | January 18 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
43. Parker Dresses Up (A Parker Curry Book)
Parker Curry | Jessica Curry | Brittany Jackson | Tajae Keith | Simon Spotlight | January 18 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
44. VIP: Stacey Abrams: Voting Visionary
Andrea J. Loney | Shellene Rodney | HarperCollins | January 18 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
45. The Witch’s Apprentice (Dragons in a Bag, Bk. 3)
Zetta Elliott | Cherise Harris | Random House BYR | January 18 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
46. Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3)
Nnedi Okorafor | PRH | January 18 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
47. How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
Kimberly Jones | Henry Holt | January 18 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
48. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
Jetta Grace Martin | Joshua Bloom | Waldo E. Martin Jr. | Levine Querido | January 18 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
49. Shattered Midnight (The Mirror, Bk. 2)
Dhonielle Clayton | Disney Hyperion | January 18 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
50. You Have A Voice
Vera Ahiyya | Fabiana Faiallo | Hightree Publishing | January 20 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
51. Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries
Tiffany Rose | little bee books | January 25, 2022 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
52. ABC That Could Be Me
Little Coleman | Lindsay Scott | La Reunion Publishing | January 25 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
53. Wutaryoo
Nilah Magruder | Versify | January 25 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
54. Fearless Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Surya Bonaly
Frank Murphy | Surya Bonaly | Anastasia Magloire Williams | Triumph Books | January 25 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
55. Your Friend, Parker: Ready-to-Read Level 1 (A Parker Curry Book)
Jessica Curry | Parker Curry | Brittany Jackson | Tajae Keith | Simon Spotlight | January 25 | ChpBk | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
56. Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
Rosita Stevens-Holsey | Terry Catasús Jennings | Yellow Jacket | January 25, 2022 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
57. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Ibi Zoboi | Dutton BYR | January 25 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
58. Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
Marilyn Nelson | Tammi Lawson | Henry Holt and Co. BYR | January 25 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
59. Mister Miracle: The Great Escape
Varian Johnson | Daniel Isles | DC Comics | January 25, 2022 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
60. Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor | Amulet Books | January 25 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound
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