BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated picture book by award-winning author and illustrator team Carole Boston Weatherford and E. B...

"Carole Boston Weatherford, once again, delivers a resounding testament and reminder, that hip-hop is a flavorful slice of a larger cultural cake. ...

Now in a Spanish-language edition! “A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for Afri...

There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a s...

With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther Ki...

Featuring lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs, here is a celebration of the Negro Leagues and the great players who went un...

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct...

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct...

Explore the roots of rap in this stunning, rhyming, triple-timing picture book!A generation voicing stories, hopes, and fearsfounds a hip-hop nat...

A 2021 Newbery Honor BookIn a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed...

Winner of a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator HonorA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016A School Library Journal Best Book of 201...

A Caldecott Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Award WinnerIn this award-winning book, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and bestselling art...

Notes From Black ReadsA tribute fit for the Queen of Soul, the story of Aretha Franklin’s remarkable life is shared in a unique and gorgeously i...

The Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibit 20152015 NAACP Image Award—Outstanding Literary Work, ChildrenNew York Public Library's 100 Titl...

In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the p...

Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud tex...

CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER! A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning autho...

A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherfo...

A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of...

The Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibit 20152015 NAACP Image Award—Outstanding Literary Work, ChildrenNew York Public Library's 100 Titl...

A 2021 Newbery Honor Book In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed ...

With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther Ki...