Discover children's books with Black characters!

Historical Fiction

  • Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

  • If My Hair Had a Voice

  • Emergency Quarters

  • Sydney’s Big Speech

  • We Could Fly

  • There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)

  • Harlem at Four

  • The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story

  • Juneteenth: A Picture Book for Kids Celebrating Black Joy

  • All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

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

  • Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Our Ancestories)

  • Girls Like Me

  • Build a House

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

  • Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights

  • Overground Railroad

  • Big Papa and the Time Machine

  • Black Is a Rainbow Color