Picture Books about Grandfathers, Grandmothers, and Elders by Black Americans

  1. My Pop Pop and Me by Irene Smalls
  2. My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls
  3. Grandpa Alan’s Sugar Shack by Alan Page
  4. Big Papa and the Time Machine by Daniel Bernstrom
  5. Grandpa’s Face by Eloise Greenfield
  6. Grandaddy’s Street Songs by Monalisa De Gross
  7. Don’t Call Me Grandma by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
  8. When Grandmama Sings by Margaree King Mitchell
  9. Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison
  10. How Old Is Grandma? by Antoinette Simmonds
  11. Janna and the Kings by Patricia Smith
  12. Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson
  13. No Mirrors in My Nana’s House: Musical CD and Book by Ysaye M. Barnwell
  14. Grandmama’s Joy by Eloise Greenfield
  15. The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
  16. Beauty, Her Basket by Sandra Belton
  17. Granddaddy’s Gift by Margaree King Mitchell
  18. The Baby on the Way by Karen English
  19. Grandma and Me by Carole Boston Weatherford
  20. Nana’s Favorite Things by Dorothy H. Price
  21. Mary Jo’s Grandmother. by Janice May Udry
  22. The Glass Bottle Tree by Evelyn Coleman