Davida Adedjouma

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children

Elizabeth Alexander

Praise Song for the Day

Maya Angelou

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem 

Derrick Barnes

I Am Every Good Thing

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Ysaye M. Barnwell

We Are One: Book and Musical 

Harry Belafonte

Island in the Sun

Daniel Beaty

Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me  

Tonya Bolden

Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church

Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Just Like Me

Gwendolyn Brooks

Bronzeville Boys and Girls 

Tameka Fryer Brown

Brown Baby Lullaby

Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something from Everything

Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song 

Let it Shine 

All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals

Lord Burgess

Caribbean Carnival: Songs of the West Indies

Grace Byers

I Believe I Can

I Am Enough

Michelle Cook

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change 

Nina Crews

The Neighborhood Sing-Along 

Samara Cole Doyon

Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

Karen English

Speak to Me

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Obama: The Day the World Danced 

My America

Eloise Greenfield

The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War

Nikki Grimes

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I Am a Promise Shelly

Patricia Hinds

Look at You, Baby Face 

Cheryl Willis Hudson

How Sweet the Sound: African American Songs for Children 

Toyomi Igus

Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel

I See the Rhythm 

I See the Rhythm of Gospel 

Angela Johnson

Daddy Calls Me Man

Hannibal B. Johnson

Up from the Ashes: A Story about Community 

Jeanine Jones

Yes We Can! Yes We Did! 

Lynda Jones

Kids Around the World Celebrate!: The Best Feasts and Festivals from Many Lands

Denise M. Jordan

Happy Birthday!

Deloris Jordan

Did I Tell You I Love You Today?

Barbara A. Kellom

Magic, Giggles and Love 

Amyra León

Freedom, We Sing

Julius Lester

Let’s Talk About Race 

Ziggy Marley

I Love You Too 

Wynton Marsalis

Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure 

Fredrick L. McKissack Jr.

Kwanzaa-Count and Celebrate!

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace 

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence 

LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss

I Love Me!

Ibtihaj Muhammad

The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family

Walter Dean Myers

We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Juneteenth 

Let Freedom Sing! 

Isaac O. Olaleye

The Distant Talking Drum 

Ifeoma Onyefulu

Ife’s First Haircut 

Eugene Useni Perkins

Hey Black Child

Tamara Pizzoli

Auntie Nappy: Lessons from the Beautiful Life Patterns Made by Nefeterius Akeli McPherson

Hilda Robinson

Didn’t We Have Fun! 

Mechal Renee Roe

Cool Cuts 

Happy Hair

Charlotte Watson Sherman

Brown Sugar Babe

Charles R. Smith

Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem 

Dimitrea Tokunbo

The Sound Of Kwanzaa

Desmond Tutu

Desmond and the Very Mean Word 

Carole Boston Weatherford

By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

Pharrell Williams

Happy

Jacqueline Woodson

The Day You Begin