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2017 Picture Books By Black Americans

  1. In Your Hands by Carole Boston Weatherford
  2. Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers
  3. The Ring Bearer by Floyd Cooper
  4. The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford
  5. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander
  6. Before She was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
  7. That Is My Dream!: A picture book of Langston Hughes’s “Dream Variation” by Langston Hughes
  8. Grandma’s Tiny House by JaNay Brown-Wood
  9. My Daddy Rules the World: Poems about Dads by Hope Anita Smith
  10. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
  11. There’s a Dragon in My Closet (Denene Millner Books) by Dorothea Taylor
  12. New Red Bike! by James E. Ransome
  13. I’m A Big Brother Now by Katura J. Hudson
  14. Where’s Rodney? by Carmen Bogan
  15. We Are Shining by Gwendolyn Brooks
  16. When Dad Comes Home by Taneshia Knight Shelton
  17. Grandpa Alan’s Sugar Shack by Alan Page
  18. Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes by Lesa Cline-Ransome
  19. Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood by Patricia C. McKissack
  20. My Brown Skin by Thomishia Booker
  21. Princess Hair by Sharee Miller