Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Anti-Racist Picture Books
A is for Activist
Nagara, Innosanto.
Also available in Hoopla. A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the nex...
I Am Enough
Byers, Grace.
Also available as an e-audio through Hoopla. Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others...
My Hair is a Garden
Cabrera, Cozbi A.
Also, available as an e-book through Hoopla. After being teased yet again about her unruly hair, Ma...
Hair Love
Cherry, Matthew A.
Also available in Overdrive and as an e-audio through Hoopla. A little girl's daddy steps in t...
Love
de la Peña, Matt.
Also available in English and Spanish as an e-book through OverDrive/Libby. Illustrations and easy-...
Mixed Me!
Diggs, Taye.
Also available as an e-audio through Hoopla. Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, comple...
Magnificent Homespun Brown : A Celebration
Doyon, Samara Cole.
Also available in Hoopla. Joyful young narrators celebrate feeling at home in one's own skin. ...
What
Evans, Kristina.
In a rhythmically-written conversation between parent and child, Mama lists her son's many goo...
Happy in Our Skin
Manushkin, Fran.
Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-colored babies, pea...
Hands Up!
McDaniel, Breanna J.
A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in...
The Proudest Blue : A Story of Hijab and Family
Muhammad, Ibtihaj.
Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to scho...
Looking Like Me
Myers, Walter Dean.
Also available in Hoopla and as a kit. Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people...
Sulwe
Nyong'o, Lupita.
Also available as e-book through OverDrive/Libby. When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make f...
All Are Welcome
Penfold, Alexandra.
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, ...
Shades of Black : A Celebration of our Children
Pinkney, Sandra L.
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. ...
The Breaking News
Reul, Sarah Lynne.
When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and nei...
M is for Melanin : A Celebration of the Black Child
Rose, Tiffany.
Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, Black-positive messages, from A is for Afro, to F i...
Bilal Cooks Daal
Saeed, Aisha.
Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait pa...
In Your Hands
Weatherford, Carole Boston
A prayer from mother to son that he will always be in safe hands. ...
The Day You Begin
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Also available as an e-book and e-audio through OverDrive/Libby. Other students laugh when Rigob...
Dreamers
Morales, Yuyi.
Also available as a DVD, an e-book and e-audio through OverDrive/Libby, and an e-audio and movie th...
Not My Idea : A Book About Whiteness,
Higginbotham, Anastasia.
Also available in Hoopla. A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting an...
Hey Black Child
Perkins, Useni Eugene.
Also available as a VOX book. A lyrical, empowering poem that celebrates black children and seeks t...