Infants & Preschoolers
BOOKS FOR AGES 0-3 YEARS
1,2,3 Music! by Sylvie Auzary-Luton
Adventures of Sugar and Junior by Angela Shelf Medearis
Afro-Bets ABC Book by Cheryl Willis Hudson
All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color by Katie Kissinger
Animal Sounds for Baby by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
Baby Dance by Ann Taylor
Baby Says by John Steptoe
Ballerina Girl by Kirsten Hall
Bintou’s Braids by Sylviane A. Diouf
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Brown Sugar Babies by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Busy Baby by Naomi McMillan
Busy Toes by CW Bowie
C is for City by Nikki Grimes
Cassie’s Colorful Day by Faith Ringgold
Christmas for 10 by Cathryn Falwell
Counting to Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Daddy and I by Eloise Greenfield
Did I Tell You I Love You Today by Delores Jordan
Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson
Elizabeti’s Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
Furaha Means Happy!: A Book of Swahili Words by Ken Wilson-Max
Giant Hiccups by Jacqui Farley
Give Me Grace: A Child’s Daybook of Prayers by Cynthia Rylant
Got to Dance by MC Helldorfer
Grandfather and I by Helen E. Buckley
Grandmother and I by Helen E. Buckley
Greetings, Sun by Phillis and David Gershator
Happy Easter, Everyone! by Hopi Morton
Happy to Be Nappy by bell hooks
Hold Christmas in Your Heart by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield
I Can Do It Too by Karen Baicker
I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas
I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
I Make Music by Eloise Greenfield
I Smell Honey: Family Celebration Board Books by Andrea Davis Pinkney
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe
Invisible Princess by Faith Ringgold
Jamaice and Brianna by Juanita Havill
Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher by Juanita Havill
Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill
Jamaica’s Blue Marker by Juanita Havill
Jamal’s Busy Day by Wade Hudson
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda Roberts
Julius by Angela Johnson
Kofi and the Butterflies by Sandra Horn
Kwanzaa Celebration: Pop-Up Book by Nancy Williams
Kwanzaa Kids by Joan Holub
Laney’s Lost Momma by Diane Johnston Hamm
Legend of the Valentine, The by Katherine Grace Bond
Maebelle’s Suitcase by Tricia Tusa
Many Colors of Mother Goose by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Mighty Menfolk by Carole Boston Weatherford
Mimi’s Tutu by Tynia Thomassie
My Aunt Came Back by Pat Cummings
My Doll, Keshia by Eloise Greenfield
My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls-Hector
My Steps by Sally Derby
Nina Bonita by Ana Maria Machado
No Mirrors in My Nana’s House by Ysaye M. Barnwell
Octopus Hug by Laurence Pringle
One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews
Palampan Day by David and Phillis Gershator
Please Baby Please by Tonya Lee
Please Puppy Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee Lewis
Pretty Brown Face by Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Quilt by Ann Jonas
Shake Shake Shake: Family celebration Board Books by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Something Special by Nicola Moon
Sophie by Mem Fox
Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson
Under the Christmas Tree by Nikki Grimes
Visit to the Farm by Lara Bergen
Watch Me Dance: Family Celebration Board Books by Andrea Davis Pinkney
What Will Mommy Do When I’m at School? by Delores Johnson
When I am Old with You by Angela Johnson
Will There Be a Lap for Me? by Dorothy Corey














