Black Voices Booklist
These books were in the Black Voices: Picture Books as Antiracist Resources exhibition, on view at The Carle’s Reading Library from August 5, 2020 to January 3, 2021
Talking Race & Racism
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs, illustrated by Shane Evans
Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Honeysmoke by Monique Fields, illustrated by Yesenia Moises
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, illustrated by Stacey Robinson and John Jennings
I Am Enough by Grace Byers, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester, illustrated by Karen Barbour
New Kid by Jerry Craft
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Noa Denmon
Skin Again by bell hooks, illustrated by Chris Raschka
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivion
Tan to Tamrind: Poems About the Color Brown by Malathi Iyengar, illustrated by Jamel Akib
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Why Am I Me? by Paige Britt, illustrated by Selino Alko and Sean Qualls
Celebrating Black Lives
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle by Hilda Eunice Burgos
Another by Christian Robinson
Baby Says by John Steptoe
Be Boy Buzz by bell hooks, illustrated by Chris Raschka
Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd, illustrated by Nneka Myers
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Calling the Water Drum by LaTisha Redding, illustrated by Aaron Boyd
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James
The Field by Baptiste Paul, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Nina Crews
Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Daniel Minter
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by Shane Evans
Homemade Love by bell hooks, illustrated by Shane Evans
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by James Gordon
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe
Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin
Looking for Bongo by Eric Velasquez
Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Ebony Glenn
My Rainy Day Rocketship by Markette Sheppard, illustrated by Charly Palmer
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, illustrated by Van T. Rudd
Princess Hair by Sharee Miller
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatherfod, illustrated by Frank Morrison
Saturday by Oge Mora
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter by Eric Shabazz Larkin
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
Where’s Rodney? by Carmen Bogan, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Luisa Uribe
Standing Together
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
An ABC of Equality by Chana Ginelle Ewing, illustrated by Paulina Morgan
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
Be a King by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by James Ransome
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Michaeux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Destiny’s Gift by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illustrated by Adjoa J. Burrowes
Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Magdalena Mora
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Eric Shabazz-Larkin
Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All by Carolyn Choi, LaToya Council, and Chelsea Johnson, illustrated by Ashley Seil Smith
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de La Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Lend a Hand: Poems About Giving by John Frank, illustrated by London Ladd
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson, illustrated by Frank Morrison
Milo’s Museum by Zetta Elliot, illustrated by Purple Wong
Oh, The Things We’re For! by Innosanto Nagara
The Power Book by Claire Saunders, Georgia Amson-Bradshaw, Minna Salami, Mik Scarlet, and Hazel Songhurst, illustrated by Joelle Avalino
Shirley Chisholm is a Verb! by Veronica Chambers, illustrated by Rachelle Baker
Speak up! by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Ebony Glenn
We March by Shane W. Evans
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
Young, Gifted, and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippins