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African American Picture Books
This list includes children's fiction by and about African-Americans.

By the dawn's early light 1994.
Ackerman, Karen.

Saturday at The New You. 1994.
Allie's basketball dream. 1996.
Barber, Barbara E.

Sing to the stars. 1994.
Barrett, Mary Brigid

May'naise sandwiches
& sunshine tea.
1994.
Belton, Sandra.

Red light, green light,
mama and me.
1995.
Best, Cari.

Daniel's dog. 1990.
Bogart, Jo Ellen.

Baby animals. 1989.
Brown, Margaret Wise

Flower garden. 1994.
Bunting, Eve.

Just us women. 1982.
Caines, Jeannette Franklin.

Wild, wild, sunflower child Anna. 1987.
Carlstrom, Nancy White.

Dark day, light night. 1995.
Carr, Jan.

On the day I was born. 1995.
Chocolate, Deborah M. Newton .

Everett Anderson's goodbye. 1983.
Clifton, Lucille.

White socks only. 1996.
Coleman, Evelyn.

Mr. Pam Pam
and the Hullabazoo.
1994.
Cooke, Trish.

Bigmama's. 1991.
Shortcut. 1992.
Crews, Donald.

Half a moon and one whole star. 1986.
Home place. 1990.
Dragonwagon, Crescent.

Fishing. 1993.
Engel, Diana.

Neeny coming, Neeny going. 1996.
English, Karen.

Shape space. 1992.
Feast for 10. 1993.
Falwell, Cathryn.

The green lion of Zion Street. 1988.
Fields, Julia.

Corduroy. 1968.
A pocket for Corduroy. 1978.
Freeman, Don.

Indigo and moonlight gold. 1993.
Gilchrist, Jan Spivey.

Send Wendell. 1974.
Gray, Genevieve.

Miss Tizzy. l993.
Gray, Libba Moore.

First pink light. 1976 .and 1991.
Grandmama's joy. 1980.
William and the good old days. 1993.
On my horse. l995.
Greenfield, Eloise.

Kinda blue. 1993.
Grifalconi, Ann.

Eat up, Gemma. 1988.
Hayes, Sarah.

Evan's corner. 1967. and 1990.
Hill, Elizabeth Starr.

Amazing Grace. 1991.
Hoffman, Mary.

Aunt Flossie's hats
(and crab cakes later).
1991.
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald.

How many stars in the sky. 1991.
Hort, Lenny.

 

Joshua's Masai mask. 1993.
The magic moonberry jump ropes. 1996.
Hru, Dakari.

Bright eyes, brown skin. 1990.
Hudson, Cheryl Willis.

Do like Kyla. 1990.
One of three. 1991.
Johnson, Angela.

Papa's stories. 1994.
Johnson, Dolores.

Matthew and Tilly. 1991.
Jones, Rebecca C.

The snowy day. 1962.
Whistle for Willie. 1964.
Keats, Ezra Jack.

Africa brothers and sisters. 1993.
Sweet Magnolia. 1995.
Kroll, Virginia L.

Flossie & the fox. 1986.
Mirandy and Brother Wind. 1988.
McKissack, Pat.

Dancing with the Indians. 1991.
Medearis, Angela Shelf.

Regina's big mistake. 1990.
Moss, Marissa.

I want to be. 1993.
Moss, Thylias.

The car washing street. 1993.
Red dancing shoes. 1993.
Patrick, Denise Lewis.

My mama sings. 1994.
Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse.

The paperboy. 1996.
Pilkey, Dav.

Back home. 1992.
The Sunday outing. 1994.
Pinkney, Gloria Jean.

Max found two sticks. 1994.
Jojo's flying side kick. 1995.
The adventures of sparrowboy. 1997.
Pinkney, J. Brian.

Chicken Sunday. 1992.
Mrs. Katz and Tush. 1992.
Polacco, Patricia.

Tar beach. 1991.
Ringgold, Faith.

Satchmo's blues. 1996.
Schroeder, Alan.

What's what?: a guessing game. 1996.
Serfozo, Mary.

Irene and the big, fine nickel. 1991.
Dawn and the round to-it. 1994.
Smalls-Hector, Irene.

Home field. 1993.
Spohn, David.

Storm in the night. 1988.
Stolz, Mary.

Bear E. Bear. 1995.
Straight, Susan.

Down home at Miss Dessa's. 1996.
Stroud, Bettye.

Lordy, Aunt Hattie. 1973.
Thomas, Lanthe.

Kelly in the mirror. 1993.
Vertreace, Martha M.

Ty's one-man band. 1980.
Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Juneteenth jamboree. 1995.
Weatherford, Carole Boston.

Journey to freedom. 1994.
Jumping the broom. 1994.
Wright, Courtni Crump.