Discover children's books with Black characters!

Historical

  • Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom

  • Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan’s Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal (A Sweet Blackberry Book)

  • People of Yesterday : A Journey to Explore Ancient Civilizations of the World

  • Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Our Ancestories)

  • Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book

  • Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better

  • In Grenada, What do you see?

  • Alexa, What Color Are You?

  • Garfield Goes to Haiti: My Middle School Summer Vacation and the 2021 Earthquake

  • Black Child, Hold Your Head High: Empowering Book for Black Children that Celebrates a Rich Culture and History

  • Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa

  • Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus) (The Scholastic Focus)

  • Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

  • We Are Our Ancestors’ Keepers

  • Know Your Hairitage: Zara’s Wash Day

  • Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (Leaders & Dreamers, 3)