The Top 25 Children’s Books & Best Illustrated Children’s Books
How many African American children’s books do you have in your children’s personal home library? Do you have at least 25 African American children’s books nestled on your children’s book shelves? If not and you want to start growing their culture awareness and openness today, please check out the list of the top 25 children’s books I came up with.
If you have any other books you’d like to recommend for the Top 25 Children’s Books & Best Illustrated Children’s Books list, I’d love to hear from you. I will list them in my monthly newsletter. Please email me the information and help to educate others about all of the great African American children’s books and other stories that are out there. This is important because you can’t just depend on the local chain bookstores to display these relevant titles all at one time.
You’ll see a couple on the shelves at best but of course, it’s not representative of all the great children’s books out there featuring black kids. Again, for African American children’s books, check out the online book stores that I found and don’t forget about your local independent African American book stores in your area.
I came up with this Top 25 list to help promote the African American children’s books that are out there but everyone may not be aware of them. I’m interested in all literature for children and believe they should be exposed to all sorts of different books for educational growth.
My main objective is to just get all children reading no matter what, so I will also be recommending all sorts of other books that I come across and are good picks for kids. Email me all of your suggestions and they will be featured in my monthly newsletter for everyone to see.
Our home is like a small bookstore in itself because of the hundreds of books that we own on our shelves. It’s so much in fact, that I opened up an online bookstore with Amazon and donated hundreds of books to my father’s church where he works with his youth ministry. If you have an abundance of children’s books, you can donate them to kid’s organizations, libraries, or give them away to younger family members to keep the cycle of reading circulating forever.
Top 25 Children’s Books & Best Illustrated Children’s Books Featuring African American Children (Not In Any Particular Order)
1. Sunny’s Adventures by Leketha Marie Johnson
2. Colors Come From God Just Like Me! By Carolyn A. Forche’
3. Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
4. Come Sunday by Nikki Grimes
5. Willimena Rules Book Series by Valerie Wilson Wesley
6. Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
7. Don’t Say Ain’t by Irene Smalls
8. An Apple for Harriet Tubman by Glennette Tilley Turner
9. I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
10. Afro-Bets ABC Book by Cheryl Willis Hudson
11.Shades of Black by Sandra L. Pinkey
12. Christmas Soup by Alice Faye Duncan
13. Grandma’s Soup by Ja’Nae
14. Chicken Wing by Christine Young-Robinson
15. Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
16. Everything About Me is Beautiful by Amy M. Cooper
17. My First Kwanzaa Book by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
18. Lily Brown’s Paintings by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis
19. One Million Men and Me by Kelly Starling Lyons
20. Queen of the Scene by Queen Latifah
21. Shante’ Keys and the New Year’s Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport and Marion Eldridge
22. In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall by Javaka Steptoe (poems)
23. Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria by Kyra E. Hicks
24. Ev’ry Little Soul by Terry O’Neal
25. An African Princess by Lyra Edmonds and Anne Wilson
Again, I would love to hear from you regarding what your picks would be for the Top 25Children’s Books & Best Illustrated Children’s Bookslist. Please email me the information for the book of your choice and I will try to add it to my monthly newsletter. This will really help all parents and little readers make the best choices possible in choosing books.
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I hope you enjoyed my list of the Top 25 children’s books. You can start building your own library by getting your own copy of Sunny’s Adventures.
