White Plains Public Library: African American Children's Authors

Press release from the White Plains Public Library:

February 7, 2022

Enjoy these wonderful tales of triumph, challenges, hope and above all, love.

Stacey’s extraordinary words, by Stacey Abrams
Library Catalog / Libby

How to read a book, by Kwame Alexander
Library Catalog

I am every good thing, by Derrick D. Barnes
Library Catalog / eBook / Audiobook

The king of Kindergarten, by Derrick Barnes
Library Catalog / Libby

Zuri Ray tries ballet, by Tami Charles
Library Catalog

When we say Black Lives Matter, by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Library Catalog / Libby

We shall overcome, by Bryan Collier
Library Catalog / Libby

Parker looks up: an extraordinary moment, by Parker Curry
Library Catalog / Libby

Ruby‘s reunion day dinner, by Angela Dalton
Library Catalog / Libby

Chocolate me!, by Taye Diggs
Library Catalog / Libby

Not quite Snow White, by Ashley Franklin
Library Catalog

Thinker: my puppy poet and me, by Eloise Greenfield
Library Catalog / Libby

Bedtime for sweet creatures, by Nikki Grimes
Library Catalog / eBook / Audiobook

The dream keeper and other poems, by Langston Hughes
Library Catalog / Libby

Daddy calls me a man, by Angela Johnson
Library Catalog

Salt in his shoes: Michael Jordan in pursuit of a dream, by Deloris Jordan
Library Catalog

Antiracist Baby, by Ibram X. Kendi
Library Catalog / eBook / Audiobook

Let’s talk about race, by Julius Lester
Library Catalog

Sleepover scientist, by Kelly Starling Lyons
Library Catalog / Libby

Hey black child, by Useni Eugene Perkins
Library Catalog / eBook / Audiobook

Time for Kenny, by Brian Pinkney
Library Catalog

Bedtime bonnet, by Nancy Redd
Library Catalog / Libby

Stuntboy, in the meantime, by Jason Reynolds
Library Catalog / Libby

When my cousins come to town, by Angela Shanté
Library Catalog

Dreams for a daughter, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Library Catalog / Libby

Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Library Catalog / Libby

Clayton Byrd goes underground, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Library Catalog / eBook / Audiobook

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