This is a collection of literature that I have come across, read to my children, or was suggested by the many dear folks I have met. Hopefully there are no duplicates. Enjoy :-)
Jump; from the life of Michael Jordan by Floyd Cooper
Sing Along Song by JoAnn Early Macken
Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
(Maybe a repeat post) Jump the Sun Fairy tale classics
Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell (toddler counting book)
It's Potty Time: Build Early Childhood Skills distributed by Smart Kids Publishing. Published by Penton Overseas, Inc.
Pentonoverseas.com (Potty book comes in boy or girl, and in CC or AA)
Dancing in the Stars by Debbie Allen, pictures by Kadir Nelson. *
A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Colors Come from God Just Like Me
Wild, Wild Hair (Hello Reader!, Level 3)
The Colors of Us
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
Follow the Drinking Gourd
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History With 21 Activities
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own
Stories
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Little Bill - What I Did at School
Little Bill - Me and My Family
Little Bill - I Love Animals - All the Little Bill books
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street Picturebacks)
Elephant on the Loose
The Honeywood Street Fair
A Visit to the Dentist
The Big Storm
The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism
All the Colors of the Earth
Big Jabe
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
All Kinds of Children
Black is Brown is Tan
Visiting Langston
Coming on Home Soon
Bluish
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Yearling Newbery)
I Can Make a Difference : A Treasury to Inspire Our Children
The Measure of Our Success : Letter to My Children and Yours
Junebug
Great African Americans Coloring Book
W.I.S.E. Up! Powerbook
Sienna's Scrapbook -really great
Selavi, That is Life : A Haitian Story of Hope - true story
Show Way
Zeely
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
Any of the Cul-De-Sac kids books because they are multi-ethnic
White Socks Only
Raising Dragons
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Drylongso
Jamaica's Blue Marker
Jamaica's Find
More Than Anything Else
Jamaica Tag-Along
Jamaica and Brianna
Tap-Tap
Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher
Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring
Goin' Someplace Special (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Winner, 2002)
Boundless Grace: Sequel to Amazing Grace (Picture Puffins)
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes
Starring Grace (Puffin Chapters
Amazing Grace
I Have Heard of a Land
Books Dealing with Parenting and/OR Racism
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial
Children in a Race-Conscious World
A good magazine for the upper elementary and older age group is the Footsteps magazine editions that focuses on African American contributions in history: the magazine publisher is Cobblestone. The magazine is no longer being? published but back prints can be ordered. I purchased a few and started reviewing with big DS this summer, so far I like the format.
Footsteps Magazine