Lineage Lists

2023 Picture Books By Black Americans

  1. Good Night, Little Man by Daniel Bernstrom
  2. Countdown to Christmas by Nikki Shannon Smith
  3. All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration by Glenda Armand
  4. The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda Armand
  5. Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand
  6. Mommy Time by Monique James-Duncan
  7. Little Boo’s Halloween Party Lala Watkins
  8. To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton
  9. Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter
  10. An American Story by Kwame Alexander
  11. Zora, the Story Keeper by Ebony Joy Wilkins
  12. Together We Swim by Valerie Bolling
  13. I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
  14. Peaches by Gabriele Davis
  15. How to Love a Pony by Michelle Meadows
  16. I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams by Tanisia Moore
  17. Boy Dad by Sean Williams
  18. Joy Takes Root by Gwendolyn Wallace
  19. Like Lava in My Veins by Derrick Barnes
  20. Stella and the Mystery of the Missing Tooth by Clothilde Ewing
  21. Jump In! by Shadra Strickland
  22. Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome
  23. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dule Hill
  24. Keyana Loves Her Friend by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
  25. Lullaby for the King by Nikki Grimes
  26. Growl: Trouble at Kindness Zoo by Tony Evans
  27. Blue: The Many Ways I Feel by Nancy Johnson James
  28. Bing, Bop, Bam: Time to Jam!: by Valerie Bolling
  29. Okra Stew A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration by Natalie Daise
  30. All Good in the Hood by Dwayne Reed
  31. Potty Party! Dionna L. Mann
  32. The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden
  33. Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
  34. The Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-Gordon
  35. Little Daymond Learns to Earn by Daymond John
  36. Harlem at Four by Dr. Michael Datcher
  37. Sam with Ants in His Pants April Reynolds
  38. Santa’s Gotta Go! by Derrick Barnes