African American Picture Books

Great Picture Books Featuring African Americans

• Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
• You Can Do It Too! by Karen Baicker
• One Fall Day by Molly Bang
• Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara Barber
• By My Brother’s Side by Tiki Barber
• Papa’s Mark and others by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
• Pictures for Miss Josie by Sandra Belton
• Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me by Cari Best
• Once Upon a Farm by Marie Bradby
• Where Did Josie Go? and others by Helen E. Buckley
• Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
• I Need a Lunch Box by Jeannette Caines
• Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke
• Singing Down the Rain by Joy Cowley
• Shortcut by Donald Crews
• One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews
• Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings
• No Mush Today by Sally Derby
• Chocolate Me by Taye Diggs
• Hot Day On Abbott Avenue by Karen English
• Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman
• Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Ashford Frame
• Music from the Sky by Denise Gillard
• Sofie and the City by Karima Grant
• Me & Neesie by Eloise Greenfield
• Wen Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes
• The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
• Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanaita Havill
• Eat Up, Gemma by Sarah Hayes
• Silver Rain Brown by Mary-Claire Helldorfer
• Mr. George Baker by Amy Hest
• Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip by Denia Hester
• Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman
• Skin Again and others by Bell Hooks
• Flower Girl Butterflies by Elizabeth Howard
• The Magic Moonberry Jump Ropes by Dakari Hru
• My Friend Maya Loves to Dance by Cheryl Willis Hudson
• My People by Langston Hughes
• Yo, Jo! by Rachel Isadora
• The Girl Who Wore Snakes by Angela Johnson
• Black Magic by Dinah Johnson
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Good Neighbor Nicholas by Virginia Kroll
• Please, Puppy, Please by Spike Lee
• You and Me and Home Sweet Home by George Ella Lyon
• Roy Makes a Car by Mary E. Lyons
• The Little Piano Girl by Maryann Macdonald
• Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack
• Lola Loves Stories by Anna McQuinn
• The Adventures of Sugar and Junior and others by Angela Medearis
• Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
• Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers
• Who Will I Be, Lord? by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
• Summer Sun Risin’ by W. Nikola-Lisa
• Hewitt Anderson’s Big Life and others by Jerdine Nolen
• Fireflies for Nathan by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
• Sweets and Treats by Toni Parker
• Red Dancing Shoes by Denise Patrick
• JoJo’s Flying Side-Kick by Brian Pinkney
• Read and Rise by Sandra L. Pinkney
• John Coltrane’s Giant Steps by Chris Raschka
• Metal Man by Aaron Reynolds
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
• Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda C. Roberts
• Jump Rope Magic by Afi Scruggs
• Kevin and His Dad by Irene Smalls
• I Love My Hair and others by Natasha Tarpley
• The Hat that Wore Clara B. by Melanie Turner-Denstaedt
• A Storm Called Katrina by Myron Uhlberg
• Little Man by Dionne Warwick

Last Updated: 28 August 2012