Titles available in a board book format are indicated with “Bd Bk.”

John Agard

Wriggle Piggy Toes 

The Calypso Alphabet 

Jabari Asim

My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day (Bd Bk)

My Baby Loves Christmas (Bd Bk)

My Baby Loves Halloween (Bd Bk)

Girl of Mine (Bd Bk)

Boy of Mine (Bd Bk)

Whose Knees Are These? (Bd Bk)

Whose Toes Are Those? (Bd Bk)

Terquoia Bourne

Baby Boy, What Will You Be?

Margery W. Brown

Afro-Bets Book of Colors: Meet the Color Family

Afro-Bets Book of Shapes

Tameka Fryer Brown

Brown Baby Lullaby (Bd Bk)

Mahogany L. Browne

Woke Baby (Bd Bk)

Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry 

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Quilt Alphabet 

Quilt Counting 

Rio Cortez

The ABCs of Black History

Donald Crews

Flying

Freight Train (Bd Bk)

Harbor

Sail Away

Ten Black Dots(Bd Bk)

Truck (Bd Bk)

We Read: A to Z

Nina Crews

One Hot Summer Day

Courtney Davis

S Is for South Side: The Alphabet Visits Chicago

Chana Ginelle Ewing

An ABC of Equality (Bd Bk)

Bernette Ford

Teddy, Truck and Other First Words (Bd Bk)

One Black Cat and Other Numbers  (Bd Bk)

A Happy Home: A First Words Book (Bd Bk)

A Black Cat: An ABC Book (Bd Bk)

A Red Train: A Colors Book (Bd Bk)

1 Teddy Bear: A Counting Book (Bd Bk)

A Big Dog: An Opposites Book (Bd Bk)

A Starfish: A Shapes Book (Bd Bk)

Juwanda Ford

K is for Kwanzaa

Ruth Forman

Curls (Bd Bk)

Glow (Bd Bk)

Bloom (Bd Bk)

Nikki Grimes

C is for City

Vashti Harrison

Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Bd Bk)

Think Big, Little One (Bd Bk)

Dream Big, Little Leader (Bd Bk)

Patricia Hinds

Look at You, Baby Face

bell hooks

Homemade Love (Bd Bk)

Be Boy Buzz (Bd Bk)

Skin Again

Happy to Be Nappy (Bd Bk)

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Bright Eyes, Brown Skin (Bd Bk)

Good Morning, Baby (Bd Bk)

AFRO-BETS A B C Book  

Hands Can (Bd Bk)

Construction Zone

AFRO-BETS 1 2 3 Book

Let’s Count, Baby (Bd Bk)

Animal Sounds for Baby (Bd Bk)

Langston Hughes

Lullaby (For a Black Mother) (Bd Bk)

Deloris Jordan

Baby Blessings: A Prayer for the Day You Are Born 

Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracist Baby (Bd Bk)

Kevin Lewis

Brown Sugar Baby (Bd Bk)

Bob Marley/Cedella Marley

One Love (Bd Bk)

Every Little Thing: Based on the song ‘Three Little Birds’ by Bob Marley (Bd Bk)

Fredrick L. McKissack Jr.

Kwanzaa-Count and Celebrate!

Nanette Mellage

See Me Grow 

Keb’ Mo’

I’m Amazing (Bd Bk)

Let Your Light Shine (Bd Bk)

Johnny Ray Moore

The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. (Bd Bk)

Ifeoma Onyefulu

A Is for Africa 

Chidi Only Likes Blue: An African Book of Colors

Useni Eugene Perkins

Hey Black Child (Bd Bk)

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Count to Love! (Bd Bk)

Peek-A-You! (Bd Bk)

Sandra L. Pinkney

A Rainbow All Around Me 

I Am Latino: The Beauty in Me(Bd Bk)

Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children(Bd Bk)

Andrea Pippins

Who Will You Be?

Hey, Baby!: A Baby’s Day in Doodles (Bd Bk)

Tamara Pizzoli

M is for Marrakech: An Alphabet Book of Cities Around the World 

M is for Mohawk: An Alphabet Book of Fresh Hairstyles

Alex Rivera

Bronxshapes (Bd Bk)

Bronxtones (Bd Bk)

Mechal Renee Roe

Cool Cuts (Bd Bk)

Happy Hair (Bd Bk)

Markette Sheppard

What Is Light? (Bd Bk)

Charles R. Smith

Brown Sugar Babies (Bd Bk)

Motown: My Girl (Motown Baby Love #1) (Bd Bk)

Motown: Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (Motown Baby Love #2) (Bd Bk)

Motown: How Sweet It is to Be Loved by You (Motown Baby Love #3) (Bd Bk)

Motown: I’ll Be There – Book (Motown Baby Love #4) (Bd Bk)

Motown: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – (Motown Baby Love #5) (Bd Bk)

Motown: The Way You Do the Things You Do (Motown Baby Love #6) (Bd Bk)

Motown: You’re All I Need to Get By – (Motown Baby Love #7) (Bd Bk)

Javaka Steptoe

Sweet, Sweet Baby! (Bd Bk)

John Steptoe

Baby Says (Bd Bk)

Joyce Carol Thomas

Hush Songs 

Desmond Archbishop Tutu/Douglas Carlton Abrams

God’s Dream (Bd Bk)

Carole Weatherford

Grandma and Me (Bd Bk)

Me and My Mama (Bd Bk)

Dorena Williamson

The Story of Juneteenth (Bd Bk)

Jamia Wilson

Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! (Bd Bk)

Anne Wynter

One Big Day (Bd Bk)

Hands On! (Bd Bk)

Benjamin Zephaniah

J Is for Jamaica