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Black Baby Books

  • Becoming a Ballerina: The Story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

  • Love Will See You Through: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Six Guiding Beliefs (as told by his niece)

  • Make Your Mark: The Empowering True Story of the First Known Black Female Tattoo Artist

  • Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark

  • Wash Day with Mama

  • Soulful Struttin’

  • Maya Angelou: A Little Golden Book Biography

  • Saturday Morning at the ‘Shop

  • Baking Up Love

  • Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas

  • The People Remember: A Kwanzaa Holiday Book for Kids

  • My Afro Is a Rising Sun

  • Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood

  • Brown Girl, Brown Girl

  • The Band in Our Basement: A Picture Book

  • All the Greatness in You

  • Cicely Tyson

  • Our Joyful Noise

  • My Smock Is a Story

  • My Hair Is Like Yours

  • Xavier’s Voice

  • When Black Girls Dream Big

  • What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice

  • Black Artists Shaping the World: Picture Book Edition

  • Goodnight, Starry Night: Bedtime poems inspired by works of art

  • Willie Mays: A Little Golden Book Biography

  • Missing Momma: A Picture Book

  • Let’s Fly!: Barrington Irving’s Record-Breaking Flight Around the World

  • We Are Free, You and Me

  • Stokes: The Brief Career of the NBA’s First Black Superstar

  • My Hair Is My Friend

  • Getting Us to Grandma’s (The Malaika)

  • Life Is Beautiful

  • My Friend LeVar

  • Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese: A Story of Food, Family, and Freedom

  • Plátanos Are Love

  • Grandma’s Hands

  • On the Farm: A Brown Baby Parade Book

  • The Day Madear Voted

  • Sister Friend: A Picture Book