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African American Children Literature

Thought my search for culturally authentic African American Children Literature I have found that realistic African American literature is available but must be actively sought out!

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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin - Jen Bryant, Melissa Sweet

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text: A chair for my Mother

(Williams, 1998) Note: Acclaimed author/illustrator Vera Williams tells of a young girl, who along with her waitress mother, ...

A Chair for My Mother - Vera B. Williams

text: What Socks only

Note: This theme fits the book because the little girl viewed the sign on the water fountain differently than what it actuall...

text: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

(Nelson, 2005) Note: Through sublime landscapes and warm images of a boy and his family, this adaptation of the beloved folk ...

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Kadir Nelson

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(Levine & Nelson, 2007) Note: A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award...

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad - Ellen Levine

text: Big Mama's

(Books, 1998) Note: When he visits Bigmama's house in the country, Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news, and the old...

text: Freight Train

(Crews, 1989) Note: When a train races by on a track, how many different cars are there? And in how many colors? If you look ...

text: Shortcut

(Crews, 1997) Note: Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train appr...

text: Freedom Summer

Note: John Henry swims better than anyone I know.He crawls like a catfish,blows bubbles like a swamp monster,but he doesn’t s...

Freedom Summer - Deborah Wiles, Jerome Lagarrigue

text: the Patchwork Quilt

(Flournoy, 1985) Note: Tanya loves listening to her grandmother talk about the quilt she is making from pieces of colorful fa...

The Patchwork Quilt - Valerie Flournoy, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)

text: What A Wonderful World

(Weiss, Weiss, Thiele, & Bryan, 1996) Note: What simpler way could there be to express to children the beauty and the harmony...

What a Wonderful World - Bob George David & Thiele Weiss

text: Girls Hold up The World

Note: Actress Jada Pinkett Smith--wife of superstar Will Smith--lovingly captures the strength, unity, and beauty that live i...

Girls Hold Up This World - Jada Pinkett Smith, Donyell Kennedy-Mccullough

text: When I am Old with you

Note: "A small child imagines a future when he will be old with his Granddaddy and will sit beside him in a rocking chair and...

text: Ruby Bridges Goes to School

(Bridges, 2009) Note: The extraordinary true story of Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to integrate a New Orlea...

Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story (Scholastic Reader Level 2) - Ruby Bridges

text: Working Cotton

(Williams & Byard, 1997) Note: This child's view of the long day's work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet's re...

Working Cotton - Sherley Anne Williams, Carole Byard

text: The Story of Ruby Bridges

(Coles & Ford, 1995) Note: This beautiful picture book, illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award-illustrator George Ford, and ...

The Story Of Ruby Bridges - Robert Coles, George Ford

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