Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please are classic children’s literature and belong on every bookshelf! There are my go to baby shower books. Others ones we love are here: https://beyondthesnowyday.blogspot.com/search/label/Black%20Author

Love this list! I’m working on my first children’s book and could really use the wisdom and insight from other authors. Anyone know of writing communities and forums to join?

My 12 year old daughter Kelsey Thomas has written a epic fantasy called “Call of the Wolves”. It’s is for sale on Amazon.com. The cover is a picture of a girl who looks like a wolf. Kelsey has finished writing her second book and is looking for a publisher.

Since many black families are dealing with grief this year, I suggest “My Forever Guardian” by Kristina Jones. The book helped my son heal from the loss of so many people and things this year. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/My-Forever-Guardian-Healing-friends/dp/1734814217/ref=nodl_

Love this list! I don’t have kids of my own but am always looking for gift ideas for friends’ kids.
Adding a book to the list by a friend’s grandmother. She wrote “How Old is Grandma?”. It’s a sweet, intergenerational story–-great for young kids to read with their grandparents!
http://nanasbookshelf.com/where-to-buy/

Check out The Brown Bookcase (https://www.thebrownbookcase.com/about)! From their About page:

“The Brown Bookcase is an independent bookstore founded by 9 year old, Rylei, in order to display diversity in children and teen books.

‘I was having trouble finding books to read with characters that look like me and that I could relate to. So, I wanted to start a bookstore for kids to be able to find books they are able to identify with.'”

I love Grandma’s Tiny House by JaNay Brown-Wood, Grandma’s Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Brown Baby Lullaby by Tameka Fryer Brown, both Saturday and Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora, anything illustrated by Christian Robinson, and Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes. Andrea Pinkney wrote a book about Ezra Jack Keats called a Poem for Peter.

Some folks were looking for baby books and Gabrielle Union wrote Welcome to the Party which looks very sweet. Donald Crews’ board books are essential though.

Then as for chapter fun chapter books: anyone a fan of the Little Shaq series by Shaquille O’Neal? They’re popular at our library! Christopher Myers is a profilic writer of sports-themed chapter books. The Last, Last Day of Summer by L. R Giles is a fun chapter book.

I bought ‘Don’t touch my hair’ after it was listed here. Lovely book about consent which my kids have asked for again and again.

Tar Beach made a big impression on me when I was a kid, especially in my school of mostly non-black students.

donald crews is a favorite in our house (kids are 4 & 2)—freight train, ten black dots, and flying are frequently pulled from the shelves.