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Books

  • 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

  • The River Is My Ocean

  • Stella and Roger Can’t Wait to Grow Up

  • L Is for Love

  • The Littlest Food Critic

  • Stacey Speaks Up

  • They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom

  • A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story

  • Great Idea Malia!

  • Great Minds of Science (Black Lives #1): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel

  • Black Girl, Black Girl

  • The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community

  • The Idea in You

  • Kwame Votes

  • The Season of Styx Malone

  • Joyful, Joyful: 20 Stories by BRILLIANT Black Creators from Around the World

  • Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair

  • My Hair Can

  • My Hair Is a Book

  • Swim Team: A Graphic Novel

  • Before the Ever After

  • Nell Plants a Tree

  • Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

  • Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

  • Woku the Water Warrior