| Multicultural Books for Children: | |
| We March, Shane Evans | The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou |
| Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue and Corinne Naden | The Black Poets A New Anthology, edited by Dudley Randall |
| Hope’s Gift, Kelly Starling Lyons | Cool Salsa, edited by Lori M. Carlson |
| Wind Flyers, Angela Johnson | Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson |
| My Name is Truth, Ann Turner | The Surrender Tree, Margarita Engle |
| Harvesting Hope, Kathleen Krull | A Fire in My Hands, Gary Soto |
| The Bat Boy & His Violin, Gavin Curtis | Crossover, Kwame Alexander |
| Alec’s Primer, Mildred Pitts Walter | Latino Poetry, Globe Fearon |
| New Shoes, Susan Lynn Meyer | Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Touch the Sky, Ann Malaspina | Carver a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson |
| Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Ramsey | The Inner City Mother Goose, David Diaz |
| Henry’s Freedom Box, Ellen Levine | Hoop Kings, Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| A Taste of Colored Water, Matt Faulkner | Sports Pages, Arnold Adoff |
| Rosa’s Bus, Jo S. Kittinger | Confetti Poems for Children, Pat Mora |
| Sit-In, Andrea Davis Pinkney | Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms, Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| A Sweet Smell of Roses, Angela Johnson | My People, Langston Hughes |
| Jamaica’s Find, Juanita Havill | I Lay My Stitches Down Poems of American Slavery, Cynthia Grady |
| Drum Dream Girl, Margarita Engle | Sola Sol Bilingual Poems, Lori Marie Carlson |
| Not Norman, Kelly Bennett | Then Entrance Place of Wonders Poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Selected by Daphne Muse |
| My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood, Tameka Fryer | The Sound That Jazz Makes, Carole Boston Weatherford |
| Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu, Ylleya Field | Words with Wings, Selected by Belinda Rochelle |
| My Navajo Sister, Eleanor Schick | Caribbean Carnival Songs of the West Indies, Irving Burgie |
| Welcome Precious, Nikki Grimes | Brothers and Sisters Family Poems, Eloise Greenfield |
| Jake’s 100th Day of School, Lester Laminack | Your Move, Eve Bunting |
| Night on Neighborhood Street, Eloise Greenfield | Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper |
| Waiting for Biblioburro, Monica Brown | Forged By Fire, Sharon Draper |
| Monster Trouble, Lane Fredrickson | Double Dutch, Sharon Draper |
| Metal Man, Aaron Reynolds | Out of My Mind, Sharon Draper |
| Lola at the Library, Anna McQuinn | The Skin I’m In, Sharon Flake |
| Daddy Calls Me Man, Angela Johnson | You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and poems about boys, Sharon Flake |
| Violet’s Music, Angela Johnson | Visiting Day, Jacqueline Woodson |
| Lottie Paris Lives Here, Angela Johnson | The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson |
| Three’s a Crowd, Gwendolyn Hooks | Each Kindness, Jacqueline Woodson |
| A Day With Daddy, Nikki Grimes | *Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson |
| My Pop and Me, Irene Smalls | We Had a Picnic Last Sunday Past, Jacqueline Woodson |
| Summer Sun Risin’, W. Nikola-Lisa | Mama Loves from Far Away, Pat Brisson |
| Lizard from the Park, Mark Pett | Leon’s Story, Leon Walter Tillage |
| Max and the Tag-Along Moon, Floyd Cooper | Thank You Mr. Falker, Patricia Polacco |
| Kitchen Dance, Maurie Manning | Drive By, Lynne Ewing |
| Penny Butter Fudge, Toni Morrison | Henry’s Freedom Box, Ellen Levine |
| The Chicken Chasing: Queen of Lamar County, Janice Harrington | Creativity, John Steptoe |
| My Family Plays Music, Judy Cox | The School is Not White!, Doreen Rappaport |
| Thunder Rose, Jerdine Nolen | Sister Anne’s Hands, Marybeth Lorbiecki |
| Thanks a Million, Nikki Grimes | A Shelter in Our Car, Monica Gunning |
| Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, Nikki Grimes | Through the Cracks, Carolyn Sollman |
| Rich, Nikki Grimes | The House that Crack Built, Clark Taylor |
| Keena Ford Series, Melissa Thomson | The Hickory Chair, Lisa Rowe Fraustino |
| EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken, Sally Warner | Nappy Hair, Carolivia Herron |
| Sweet and Sunny, Coleen Murtagh Paratore | Grandma’s Records, Eric Velasquez |
| Ling & Ting Series, Grace Lin | My Name is Yoon, Helen Recorvits |
| Sofia Martinez Series, Jaqueline Jules | The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton |
| Katie Woo Series, Fran Manushkin | More Than Anything Else, Marie Bradby |
| Skateboard Party, Karen English | The Giver, Lois Lowry |
| Don’t Turn Back, Poems by Langston Hughes, Reflected by Lee Bennett Hopkins | |
| Websites/Links:
The Brown Bookshelf http://thebrownbookshelf.com/ Black Child Books & Videos http://www.blackchildbooks.com/ |
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