Picture Books Published By Black Americans in Decade: 1990s
- Rain, Rain, Go Away (Gullah Gullah Island #1) by Teresa Reed
- Happy Birthday, Daddy (Gullah Gullah Island #2) by Teresa Reed
- Shaina’s Garden (Gullah Gullah Island #3) by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Case Of The Missing Cookies (Gullah Gullah Island #4) by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Red Dancing Shoes by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Poppa’s New Pants by Angela Shelf Medearis
- Tailypo by Angela Shelf Medearis
- Haunts by Angela Shelf Medearis
- The Ghost of Sifty-Sifty Sam by Angela Shelf Medearis
- Little Cliff and the Porch People by Clifton L. Taulbert
- The Car Washing Street by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Robo’s Favorite Places by Wade Hudson
- I Love My Family by Wade Hudson
- Away We Go! (Playskool Board Books) by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Come Sunday by Nikki Grimes
- Opposites by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Brothers of the Knight by Debbie Allen
- My Aunt Came Back by Pat Cummings
- Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life by Jerdine Nolen
- The Little Tree Growin’ in the Shade by Camille Yarbrough
- God Inside of Me by Della Reese
- Carousel by Pat Cummings
- Jonathan and His Mommy by Irene Smalls
- Baby Jesus Like My Brother by Margery W. Brown
- In My Momma’s Kitchen by Jerdine Nolen
- Moaning Bones: African-American Ghost Stories by James Haskins
- A Strawbeater’s Thanksgiving by Irene Smalls
- Cassie’s Colorful Day: A Tar Beach Board Book by Faith Ringgold
- Because You’re Lucky by Irene Smalls
- Counting to Tar Beach: A Tar Beach Board Book by Faith Ringgold
- Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade: The Johnkankus by Irene Smalls
- C Is for City by Nikki Grimes
- Beginning School by Irene Smalls
- My Man Blue (Picture Puffin Books) by Nikki Grimes
- Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel by Irene Smalls
- Ebony Sea by Irene Smalls
- Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Alvin Ailey by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Max Found Two Sticks (Reading Rainbow Book) by Brian Pinkney
- My Hair Is Beautiful: Because Its Mine (Black Butterfly Board Books) by Paula Dejoie
- JoJo’s Flying Sidekick by Brian Pinkney
- My Skin Is Brown by Paula Dejoie
- The Adventures Of Sparrowboy by Brian Pinkney
- William and the Good Old Days by Eloise Greenfield
- Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings
- Treemonisha by Angela Shelf Medearis
- Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
- All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals by Ashley Bryan
- Grandma and Me by Carole Boston Weatherford
- ‘Twas the Night B’Fore Christmas: An African-American Version by Melodye Benson Rosales
- Freedom’s Gifts: A Juneteenth Story by Valerie Wilson Wesley
- Sunday Week by Dinah Johnson
- The Bat Boy & His Violin by Gavin Curtis
- Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
- Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
- Somebody’s New Pajamas by Isaac Jackson
- When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing by Virginia Hamilton
- Dawn and the Round To-it by Irene Smalls
- Leola and the Honeybears by Melodye Benson Rosales
- Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber
- Black Cowboy, Wild Horses by Julius Lester
- Saturday at the New You by Barbara E. Barber
- John Henry by Julius Lester
- Flowers for Mommy by Susan Anderson
- Cumbayah by Floyd Cooper
- To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker
- These Hands by Hope Lynne Price
- Mac and Marie and the Train Toss Surprise by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
- No Mirrors in My Nana’s House: Musical CD and Book by Ysaye M. Barnwell
- The Glass Bottle Tree by Evelyn Coleman
- Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Joyce Carol Thomas
- White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman
- Cherish Me by Joyce Carol Thomas
- To Be a Drum by Evelyn Coleman
- Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House by Faith Ringgold
- If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
- Joshua’s Night Whispers by Angela Johnson
- Joshua By The Sea by Angela Johnson
- Mama Bird, Baby Birds by Angela Johnson
- Rain Feet by Angela Johnson
- The Girl Who Wore Snakes by James Ransome
- Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson
- When I Am Old With You by Angela Johnson
- One Of Three by Angela Johnson
- Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen
- In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Folami Abiade
- Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition by Cheryl & Wade Hudson
- Jamal’s Busy Day (Feeling Good Series) (Feeling Good Book) by Wade Hudson
- Angels : An African-American Treasury by Eloise Greenfield
- Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Maya Angelou
- How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children by Wade Hudson
- Miss Viola And Uncle Ed Lee by Alice Faye Duncan
- Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children by Mari Evans
- One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read-Aloud Stories by Susan Kantor
- Aaron and Gayala’s Counting Book Writers and Readers by Eloise Greenfield
- Aaron and Gayla’s Alphabet Book by Eloise Greenfield
- Wonders by Effie Lee Newsome
- Kevin and His Dad by Irene Smalls
- Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
- Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney
- The Sunday Outing by Gloria Jean Pinkney
- Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo by Julius Lester
- Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams
- Black Cat by Christopher Myers
- Red Dog, Blue Fly: Football Poems by Sharon Bell Mathis
- On the Day I Was Born by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
- Animal Sounds For Baby (What-A-Baby Series) by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Good Night, Baby by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Good Morning, Baby (What-a-Baby Series) by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Let’s Count, Baby (What-a-Baby Series) by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- The Baby by Monica Greenfield
- Calvin’s Christmas Wish by Calvin Miles
- The Freedom Riddle by Angela Shelf Medearis
- How Many Animals (My First Golden Board Book) by Denise Lewis Patrick
- I Can Count by Denise Lewis Patrick
- No Diapers for Baby! by Denise Lewis Patrick
- See What I Can Do by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Baby’s Colors by Naomi McMillan
- Baby’s Bedtime by Nikki Grimes
- Peekaboo Baby by Denise Lewis Patrick
- The Piano Man by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
- I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
- Happy to Be Nappy by bell hooks
- Celie and the Harvest Fiddler by Valerie Flournoy
- Afro-Bets: Book of Shapes by Margery W. Brown
- Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis
- From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester
- From Miss Ida’s Porch by Belton
- Grandaddy’s Street Songs by Monalisa De Gross
- Granddaddy’s Gift by Margaree King Mitchell