Lineage Lists

2026 Picture Books By Black Americans

  1. Family Feast! by Carole Boston Weatherford
  2. Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game by Kadir Nelson
  3. Spendin’ Time by Gary R. Gray, Jr.
  4. Seven Million Steps The True Story of Dick Gregory’s Run for the Hungry by Derrick Barnes
  5. No Way, Wash Day by Adrienne Thurman
  6. The Brunch Shift By Adrienne Thurman
  7. While We’re Here by Anne Wynter
  8. The Pool Is Cool by Dwayne Reed
  9. Sparrow Loves Reptiles by Murry Burgess
  10. Auntie’s Baby by Breanna J. McDaniel
  11. Do You See Me? by LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss
  12. Blues Boy The B. B. King Story by Alice Faye Duncan
  13. Dad by Christian Robinson
  14. Seven Million Steps The True Story of Dick Gregory’s Run for the Hungry by Derrick Barnes
  15. While We’re Here by Anne Wynter
  16. The Umbrella by Sylvia Walker
  17. Juneteenth by Hannah Eliot
  18. Charley’s Honky-Tonk Mission The Story of America’s First Black Country Music Superstar By Beatrice Winifred Iker
  19. Our Gracie Aunt by Jacqueline Woodson
  20. Do You See Me? by LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss
  21. Prayer Is by Tameka Fryer Brown
  22. A Black Girl and Her Braids By Jaylene Clark Owens
  23. Haircut Day with Dad By Monica Mikai
  24. Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation by Carole Boston Weatherford
  25. Do I Love You? Yes I Do! by Ruth Forman
  26. Like So by Ruth Forman
  27. Freedom’s Eve A Story of Watch Night by Pamela Courtney
  28. We See Triangles by Andrea Pippins
  29. The Big Once-a-Year Broussard-Bouchard Family Reunion by Karen English
  30. While We’re Here by Anne Wynter
  31. Rain Falls by Mélina Mangal
  32. Ants Work Together by Mélina Mangal
  33. Flowers Bloom by Mélina Mangal
  34. Sunday Service by Janelle Harper
  35. Freedom’s Eve: A Story of Watch Night by Pamela Courtney
  36. Black Boys, I See You by Wade Hudson
  37. This Christmas: A Festive Celebration with Soul by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
  38. Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale by JaNay Brown-Wood
  39. Day Shift, Night Shift by Ariel Vanece
  40. My Daddy Is Everything by Carole Boston Weatherford
  41. Because of Dads by K.E. Lewis
  42. Here Comes the Band By Shadra Strickland