Discover children's books with Black characters!

4 - 8 years

  • My Afro Is a Rising Sun

  • Our Joyful Noise

  • My Smock Is a Story

  • Before the Ships: The Birth of Black Excellence

  • For Our Daughters

  • Small-Girl Toni and the Quest for Gold

  • Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade

  • Beach Hair

  • Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader

  • Danté Plays His Blues

  • Emergency Quarters

  • The Heart Never Forgets

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

  • You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil TJ Book

  • What Love Looks Like

  • The Boy Who Found His Voice

  • Soul Step

  • I See Color

  • My Daddy Is a Cowboy: A Picture Book

  • Saturday Magic: A Hoodoo Story

  • Ruby René Had So Much to Say

  • Nana’s New Soul Food: Discovering Vegan Soul Food

  • Peaches: A Picture Book

  • Abuela’s Library

  • Be, Black Girl, Be

  • They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park

  • Back Home: Story Time with My Father

  • Between Two Windows

  • Natural Me

  • The Little Regent

  • Cute Toot

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

  • Yaya and the Sea

  • Dear Muslim Child: Building Self-Esteem and Resilience

  • Sydney’s Big Speech

  • Bros

  • Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin

  • The Spark in You

  • Homegrown

  • We Dream a World: Carrying the Light From My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King: Carrying the Light From My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King