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Black History Month Picture Books

Tacoma Public Library invites you to celebrate Black History Month with a great selection of children's picture books written by Black authors. The featured titles cover both historical events and modern daily life. If you're interested in more titles, there are many more where these came from. Ask a librarian for help finding more great titles.

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  • Who are we? We are a billion voices, bright and brave; we are light, standing together in the fight. Girls are strong and powerful alone, but even stronger when they work to uplift one another. In this galvanizing original poem by…
    BookNew York, New York : Viking, 2025. — CJ GORMA-A
  • A father and son joyfully make Jollof, a traditional West African dish, for their family.
    BookNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2025. — CJ MENSA-B
  • In rhyming text, siblings search for the perfect birthday gift for their grandmother.
    BookNew York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2025. — CJ BROWN-J
  • Spend Saturday morning at the barbershop in this upbeat celebration of the spaces and places that bring communities together.
    BookNew York : Beach Lane Books, 2025. — CJ JONES-K
  • A girl tells us about how she spends Sundays with her mother, while her mom washes her hair and gives her advice on life.
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, 2025. — CJ MIKAI-M
  • And She Was Loved

    Toni Morrison's Life in Stories

    Pinkney, Andrea Davis,
    A picture book biography of Toni Morrison.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — CJ 813.54 MORRISON 2025
  • Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the…
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — CJ THURM-B
  • No one knows maps like Nikki -- but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time? Nikki's family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of…
    BookToronto, ON ; Berkeley, CA : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2024. — CJ HOHN-N
  • From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's is a picture book celebration of Black history and excellence from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Carole Boston…
    BookNew York : Abrams Appleseed, 2024. — CJ WEATH-C
  • Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own song in the world around them and singing it.
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — CJ ALEXA-K
  • When a young girl's veteran mother returns home a changed person, the mindful daughter seeks to ease her Momma's melancholy and recapture the joy they once shared.
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2024. — CJ BINGH-W
  • Celebrates Black hair and heritage through the lens of a young boy and his afro.
    BookNew York, NY : Running Press Kids, 2024. — CJ YAHU-Y
  • Follows a Black family through a week of shared moments and simple pleasures, woven through with lyrics from beloved spirituals and songs.
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024. — CJ DAVIS-G
  • A boy's mirror gives him a whole new way of seeing himself.
    BookNew York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023. — CJ DAVIS-M
  • All Aboard the Schooltrain

    a Little Story From the Great Migration

    Armand, Glenda,
    During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — CJ ARMAN-G
  • A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — CJ 306.362 AL272A 2023
  • Celebrating fathers who raise, love, and uplift little men, this picture book shows how there's nothing a dad won't do for his favorite boy.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — CJ WILLI-S
  • The Green Piano

    How Little Me Found Music

    Flack, Roberta,
    Legendary singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music.
    BookNew York : Anne Schwartz Books, 2023. — CJ 782.42164 F594G 2023
  • Jaiceon's wish to be bigger starts out as a grand adventure of fantastical grown-up fun, but as he grows, the situation grows out of control along with him, and he starts to wonder if being small was not so bad after all.
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Kids, 2023. — CJ GOLDE-T
  • Celebrates a community coming together through their love of double Dutch.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2023. — CJ STRIC-S