Books by African American Authors
Easy Picture Books
Dancing in the Wings
Debbie Allen, 2000
E / ALLEN
Daddy Goes to Work
Jabari Asim, 2006
E / ASIM
Papa’s Mark
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert, 2003
E / BATTLE-LAVERT
Pictures for Miss Josie
Sandra Belton, 2003
E / BELTON
Lucky Beans
Becky Birtha, 2010
E / BIRTHA
On the Day I Was Born
Debbi Chocolate, 1995
E/ CHOCOLATE
To Be a Drum
Evelyn Coleman, 1998
E / COLEMAN
Uptown
Brian Collier, 2000
E / COLLIER
Full, Full, Full of Love
Trish Cooke, 2003
E / COOKE
Willie and the All-Stars
Floyd Cooper, 2008
E / COOPER
Shortcut
Donald Crews, 1992
E / CREWS
You Are Here
Nina Crews, 1998
E / CREWS
Harvey Moon, Museum Boy
Pat Cummings, 2008
E / CUMMINGS
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Gavin Curtis, 1998
E / CURTIS
The Genie in the Jar
Nikki Giovanni, 1996
E / GIOVANNI
Me and Neesie
Eloise Greenfield, 2005
E / GREENFIELD
Waiting for Christmas
Monica Greenfield, 1996
E / GREENFIELD
Oh Brother!
Nikki Grimes, 2008
E / GRIMES
Good Night, Baby Ruby
Rohan Henry, 2009
E / HENRY
The Magic Moonberry Jump Ropes
Dakari Hru, 1996
E / HRU
My Friend Maya Loves to Dance
Cheryl Willis Hudson, 2010
E / HUDSON
Down the Winding Road
Angela Johnson, 2000
E / JOHNSON
Please, Baby, Please
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, 2002
E / LEE
Why Heaven is Far Away
Julius Lester, 2002
E / LESTER
Stitchin’ and Pullin’: a Gee’s Bend Quilt
Patricia McKissack, 2008
E / MCKISSACK
Snug in Mama’s Arms
Angela Shelf Medearis, 2004
E / MEADEARIS
Granddaddy’s Gift
Margaree King Mitchell, 1997
E / MITCHELL
Peeny Butter Fudge
Toni Morrison, 2009
E / MORRISON
Looking Like Me
Walter Dean Myers, 2009
E / MYERS
He’s Got the Whole World in his Hands
Kadir Nelson, 2005
E / NELSON
Pitching in for Eubie
Jerdine Nolen, 2007
E / NOLEN
The Car Washing Street
Denise Lewis Patrick, 1993
E / PATRICK
Girls Hold Up This World
Jada Pinkett Smith, 2005
E / PINKETT
Peggony-Po: a Whale of a Tale
Andrea Davis Pinkney, 2006
E / PINKNEY
Hush Little Baby
Brian Pinkney, 2006
E / PINKNEY
Cassie’s Word Quilt
Faith Ringgold, 2002
E / RINGGOLD
Jazzy Miz Mozetta
Brenda C. Roberts, 2004
E / ROBERTS
Jewels
Belinda Rochelle, 1998
E / ROCHELLE
On Mardi Gras Day
Fatima Shaik, 1999
E / SHAIK
Dancing the Ring Shout!
Kim L. Siegelson, 2003
E / SIELGELSON
My Pop Pop and Me
Irene Smalls, 2006
E / SMALLS
Just the Two of Us
Will Smith, 2001
E / SMITH
Creativity
John Steptoe, 1997
E / STEPTOE
Haircuts at Sleepy Sam’s
Michael R. Strickland, 1998
E / STRICKLAND
The Patchwork Path: a Quilt Map to Freedom
Bettye Stroud, 2005
E / STROUD
Destiny’s Gift
Natasha Tarpley, 2004
E / TARPLEY
Shouting
Joyce Carol Thomas, 2007
E / THOMAS
The Hat that Wore Clara B.
Melanie Turner-Denstaedt, 2009
E / TURNER-DENSTAEDT
Kelly in the Mirror
Martha Vertreace, 1993
E / VERTREACE
Two and Too Much
Mildred Pitts Walter, 1990
E / WALTER
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Carole Boston Weatherford, 2006
E / WEATHERFORD
Girls Together
Sherley Anne Williams, 1999
E / WILLIAMS
Jenny
Beth P. Wilson, 1990
E / WILSON
Show Way
Jacqueline Woodson, 2005
E / WOODSON
Something Beautiful
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, 1998
E / WYETH
Easy to Read Books
I Hate to Be Sick
Aamir Lee Bermiss, 2004
E / PB / EASY TO READ / BERMISS
Hurry Up!
Bernette Ford, 2003
E / PB / EASY TO READ / FORD
The Girls in the Circle
Nikki Giovanni, 2004
E / PB / EASY TO READ / GIOVANNI
Water Everywhere!
Christine Taylor-Butler, 2005
E / EASY TO READ / TAYLOR-BUTLER
First Chapter Books
Nikki and Deja
Karen English, 2007
J / FIRST CHAPTER / ENGLISH
Rich: a Dyamonde Daniel book
Nikki Grimes, 2009
J / FIRST CHAPTER / GRIMES
Miami Makes the Play
Patricia and Frederick McKissack, 2001
J / FIRST CHAPTER / MCKISSACK
Escape South
Kim L. Siegelson, 2000
J / FIRST CHAPTER / SIEGELSON
23 Ways to Mess Up Valentine’s Day
Valerie Wilson Wesley, 2006
J / PB / FIRST CHAPTER / WILLIMENA
Chapter Books
The Tallest Tree
Sandra Belton, 2008
J / BELTON
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: a novel
Christopher Paul Curtis, 1995
J / CURTIS
Donavan’s Double Trouble
Monalisa DeGross, 2008
J / DEGROSS
The Birthday Storm
Sharon M. Draper, 2009
J / DRAPER
Hush Harbor: Praying in Secret
Freddi Williams Evans, 2008
J / EVANS
The Werewolf of PS 40
Dwayne J. Ferguson, 1998
J / FERGUSON
The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street
Sharon G. Flake, 2007
J / FLAKE
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Plum Fantastic
Whoopi Goldberg, 2008
J / GOLDBERG
Time Pieces: the Book of Times
Virginia Hamilton, 2002
J / HAMILTON
Most Loved in All the World
Tonya Cherie Hegamin, 2009
J / HEGAMIN
Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street.
Angela Johnson, 1999
J / JOHNSON
The Hundred Penny Box
Sharon Bell Mathis, 1975
J / MATHIS
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color to His Daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-16
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, 1998
J / MCKISSACK
The Black Snowman
Phil Mendez, 1989
J / MENDEZ
Whose Side Are You On?
Emily R. Moore, 1988
J / MOORE
Patrol: an American Soldier in Vietnam
Walter Dean Myers, 2002
J / MYERS
Almost to Freedom
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, 2003
J / NELSON
Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses
Harriett Gillem Robinet, 2003
J / ROBINET
Safe at Home
Sharon Robinson, 2006
J / ROBINSON
Minnie Saves the Day
Melodye Rosales, 2001
J / ROSALES
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance: a Novel
Eleanora Tate, 2007
J / TATE
Running For Our Lives
Glennette Tilley Turner, 1994
J / TURNER
Suitcase
Mildred Pitts Walter, 1999
J / WALTER
Freedom’s Gifts: a Juneteenth Story
Valerie Wesley, 1997
J / WESLEY
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia, 2010
J / WILLIAMS-GARCIA
Robin On His Own
Johnniece Marshell Wilson, 1990
J / WILSON
Peace, Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson, 2009
J / WOODSON
Once on This River
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, 1998
J / WYETH
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