Nonfiction > Picture > Aspiration/Motivation

Kwame Alexander
The Undefeated
Glenda Armand
Ira’s Shakespeare Dream  
Jabari Asim
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
Derrick Barnes
I Am Every Good Thing
Tonya Bolden
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas
Mahogany L. Browne
Woke Baby
Grace Byers
I Believe I Can
I Am Enough
Charisse Carney-Nunes
I Am Barack Obama 
Lesa Cline-Ransome
My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey
Michelle Cook
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
Parker Curry & Jessica Curry
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce
I Am a Promise Shelly
Lorraine Dowdy Gordon
Dancing with Momspirations
Eloise Greenfield
For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me 
Nikki Grimes
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 
Kamala Harris
Superheroes Are Everywhere
Meena Harris
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
Vashti Harrison
Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Board Book)
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Dream Big, Little Leader Board Book
Little Leaders Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Tony Hillery
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
Patricia Hinds
What I Want to Be 
Nadia Hohn
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
Crystal Hubbard
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
Rita Lorraine Hubbard
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
Hammering for Freedom
Katura Hudson
Quotes for Kids: Words for Kids to Live by 
Langston Hughes
That Is My Dream
I, Too, Am America
LeBron James
I Promise
Deloris Jordan
Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Olympic Gold 
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
Ibram X. Kendi
Antiracist Baby
Spike & Tonya Lee Lewis
Giant Steps to Change the World 
Kelly Starling Lyons
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations
Bob Marley & Cedella Marley
Get Up, Stand Up
Every Little Thing
One Love
Michelle Meadows
Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins
Breanna J. McDaniel
Hands Up!
LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss
I Love Me!
Baptiste Paul
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in
Cameroon
Eugene Useni Perkins
Hey Black Child
Beah E. Richards
Keep Climbing, Girls 
Faith Ringgold
Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True 
Christian Robinson
You Matter
Katheryn Russell-Brown
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Brown Sugar Babe
Charles R. Smith
Hoop Kings 
Hoop Queens 
Sheryl Swoopes
Hoops with Swoopes
Bounce Back 
Tererai Trent
The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can
Sarah Warren
Beyoncé: Shine Your Light
Carole Boston Weatherford
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
Oprah: The Little Speaker
Obama: Only in America
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Jacqueline Woodson
The Day You Begin
Jasmyn Wright
I’m Gonna Push Through!
Benjamin Zephaniah
When I Grow Up