Clear DayHere is my original message and the suggestions received. Many of you
reccomended the same titles which shows me just how much they are loved! Thank
you!!!!!!!!
Original Message: I am trying to compile a list of Black History Picture Books for
both my
teacher's use as well as a class assignment. I have plenty of chapter books but I
am focusing on Picture Books. If
you have 2-3 favorite titles you share would you mind sending them? I
will post a HIT if there is interest.
Thanks so much. This group is fantastic!!!
Here are the responses I received starting with my own favorite. I compiled
duplicates as much as possible and marked an X for each time it was suggested.
Thanks again so very very much! If I have missed thanking anyone please accept my
apologies. I do appreciate your input.
Serena
Library Media
Heber Valley Elem
Heber, Utah
shayes@syptec.com
Up The Learning Tree by Marcia Vaughn (CLAU nominee)
White socks only. Morton Grove, Ill:
A. Whitman, [1996].
Note: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town
during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi. XXX
Sweet land of liberty Hopkinson, Deborah and Jenkins, Leonard. . 1st ed.
Atlanta, Ga: Peachtree, [2007].
Note: Tells the story of Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of the
interior under President Franklin Roosevelt, telling how a childhood
injustice influenced his decision to organize the 1939 concert given by
African-American opera singer Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
after she had been denied the use of Constitution Hall.
Johnson, Dolores. Seminole diary. New York: Macmillan, [1994].
Note: Libbie, a young African-American slave escapes from a plantation
in 1834, and is taken south to Florida to join the Seminole Indian
tribe.
McKissack, Patricia C and Pinkney, Jerry. Goin' someplace special. New
York: Simon & Schuster, [2001].
Note: In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl
braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few
integrated places in town: the public library. XXXX
Rochelle, Belinda and Jonhson, Larry. When Jo Louis won the title.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, [1994].
Note: Jo's grandfather helps her feel better about herself when he tells
her the story about why she is named for the heavyweight boxing
champion, Joe Louis.
Woodson, Jacqueline and Lewis, E. B. The other side. New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, [2001].
Note: Two girls, one white and one African-American, gradually get to
know each other as they sit on the fence. XX
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson) XX
Mirandy and Brother Wind (McKissack)
The Hired Hand (San Souci)
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni XXX
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles XX
This is the Dream by Diane Shore and Jessica Alexander
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris
More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby with pictures by Chris K. Soentpiet. It is
a beautifully illustrated fictionalization of Booker T. Washington's desire to
learn to read and is set just after Emancipation.
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris illustrated by Chris Soentpiet,
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine illustrated by Kadir Nelson. XXX
When Marion Sang: The True Recital of Marion Jones by Pam Munoz Ryan
Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes
Ella Fitzgerald by Pinkney
Wilma Unlimited by Rudolph
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Weatherford
An Apple for Harriet Tubman by Glennett Tilley Turner
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson XX
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Freedom Ship by Doreen Rappaport
This is the Dream by Shore
The School is Not White!, The True Story of the Civil Rights Movement by
Rappaport XX
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Weatherford
The Sweet Smell of Roses by Johnson
Freedom School, Yes! By Littlesugar
Freedom Summer by Wiles
Going North by Harrington
Mississippi Morning by Ruth Vander Zee
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Nelson
More Than Anything Else by Bradby
The Bus Ride that Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks by Edwards
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Lester
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A
Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from
the black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia Thomas
Freedom's Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration
by Velma Maia Thomas
No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey from Slavery to Emancipation Through
Song by Velma Maia Thomas
We Shall Not Be Moved by Velma Maia Thomas
Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Mpat to Freedom by Stroud
Under the Quilt of night by Hopkinson
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Winter
The Secret to Freedom by Vaughan
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Hopkinson
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Edwards
A Freedom River by Rappaport
Rap A Tap Tap by Dillon
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Pinkney
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Orgill
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Raschka
Visiting Langston by Perdomo
Satchmo's Blues by Schroeder
What Charlie Heard by Gerstein
John Coltrane's Giant Steps by Raschka
Ellington Was Not a Street by Shange
Virgie Goes to School With us Boys; look for illustrations by E.B. Lewis and
Ransome; The Jazz by the Dillions and Jazz by Myers, Rap-atap-tap by the Dillions
the story of Bo Jangles...there are great clips on the web, and be sure to check
the Coretta Scott King books in the illustrator category.
Papa's mark by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
The other side by Jacqueline Woodson
Richard Wright and the library card by William Miller
Goin' someplace special by Patricia McKissack
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Martin's Big Words by Rappaport
My Brother Martin: a sister remembers growing up with the Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. by
Christine King Farris
Minty: a story of young Harriet Tubman by Schroeder
Only Passing Through (Sojourner Truth) by Rockwell
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Satchel Paige by Cline-Ransome
We are the Ship: the story of the Negro Leagues is brand new, haven't read it yet
but it got starred reviews - by Kadir Nelson
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