Black Books Every Child Should Have in 2024

BMR Booklist 2024

Newcomers

Published in 220-2024

  1. 1. When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant (2024)
    2. Words Are My Super Power by Harold Green (2024)
    3. Julie and the Mango Tree by Sade Smith (2023)
    4. When My Cousins Come to Town by Angela Shante (2021)
    5. Fresh Juice by Robert Liu Trujillo (2023)
    6. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union (2020)
    7. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe (2020)
    8. The Kindest Red by Ibtihaj Muhammad (2023)
    9. Max and the Tag Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
    10. Kicks In the Sky by C.G. Esperanza (2023)

Classics

  1. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (1991)
  2. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee (2002)
  3. Hands Up by Breanna J. McDaniel (2019)

Honorable Mention

(Books we love, that aren’t by Black authors/illustrators)

  1. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema (1981)
  2. Stanley’s Secret by John Sullivan (2023)