It’s bedtime for a brother and sister, but who can sleep when there’s an awesome beat? Find out what happens in The Band in Our Basement, by Kelly J. Baptist and Jenin Mohammed.
Browsing: Black experience
Black Artists Shaping the World, by Sharna Jackson and Marilyn Esther Chi, includes 14 stories of the lives and works of Black artists.
Saturday Morning at the ‘Shop tells the story of a neighborhood barbershop that serves as almost as a community center.
Ruby Bridges, shares the tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life in Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher.
Learn about civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. in You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr., by Dean Robbins and Anastasia Magloire Williams.
Celebrate infinite promise in When Black Girls Dream Big, a picture book written by Tanisia Moore and illustrated by Robert Paul Jr.
Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in All the Blues in the Sky, a new novel for upper middle-grade readers.
Learn about black fashion icon and design pioneer Zelda Wynn Valdes in Dazzling Zelda, a picture book biography by Aura Lewis and Farai Simoyi.
A Black girl faces the complexities of race in Radiant a historical middle-grade novel in verse from multiple Coretta Scott King winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.
Celebrate the lives and contributions of Black scientists throughout history with Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden and David Wilkerson.