Black Authors

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.   In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, René...

"Deepened and expanded by its illustrations, this is a stunning introduction to the true meaning of a global community."--School Library Journal ...

EDICIÓN BILINGÜE PRÓLOGO DE OPRAH WINFREY HERMOSA EDICIÓN EN TAPA DURA ELEGIDA UNA DE LAS 100 PERSONAS QUE SERÁN MÁS INFLUYENTES EN EL FUTURO SEGÚ...

Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was boug...

First published in 1834, this volume contains a collection of memoirs and poems by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784). Wheatley was an American freed ...

First published in 1899, "Lyrics of the Hearthside" is a collection of poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Dunbar was an American novelist,...

This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that at...

For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this you...

Un lírico libro debut para niños por la poeta inaugural presidencial Amanda Gorman y el ilustrador #1 superventas del New York Times Loren Long. "E...

A guy whose father ripped his heart out too.You and me, Ishmael, we're brothers, two dark sons. Destroyed, lost, and isolated, the perspectives of ...

Mary Rudine, called Mister by almost everyone, has attended church and sung in the choir for as long as she can remember. But then she meets Trey....

From a father-son team comes a gorgeous picture book that "pays tribute to the variety of America as well as to its promise--in Christopher Myers's...

To one young narrator, it's the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country, and kiss...

"A culturally rich collection of poetic tributes that extends the legacies of poets from around the globe. . . . A magnificent exploration of the p...

In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams...

In 26 never-before-published short and wonderfully clever poems, Langston Hughes takes children through both the alphabet and the animal world. Fro...

" 'I, Too, ' one of preeminent African American poet and intellectual Langston Hughes' most influential literary works, is reinstantiated and reint...

This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith R...

This award-winning poetry collection includes sixteen poems that tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life seen through the eyes of a child...

To one young narrator, it's the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country, and kiss...

A new collection of poetry for kids from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield! Thinker isn't just an average puppy—he's a poet...