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