A selected list of children's picture books about African American history and the African American experience.
![Book cover for The Bell Rang](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/c00198c1830e22b55fd442e420130cef.jpg?itok=8PaTjbPC)
The Bell Rang
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8db97b942a8d7f4e828b2abcd271e8dd.jpg?itok=4SoTTkLM)
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Going Down Home With Daddy](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/f34035a1724763a57a542dce44c92cde.jpg?itok=RL4ghftw)
Going Down Home With Daddy
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Grandma's Purse](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/83e993dbfdcabf29356d8b6d735901b6.jpg?itok=b0RTJ-DR)
Grandma's Purse
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Hair Love](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/d3b31765c0aa44ad89317a50099563be.jpg?itok=Cxe_DQXb)
Hair Love
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Hands Up!](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/5f59fbdd740a22a68a0122e9e1637f2f.jpg?itok=-Jps-5vR)
Hands Up!
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for I Am Enough](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/13af32220b46fa056cfdd3cdd5093edb.jpg?itok=lbYaJpY9)
I Am Enough
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Last Stop on Market Street](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/c6815bd4dbc94529e56469b69e980d78.jpg?itok=xWM5_dor)
Last Stop on Market Street
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Layla's Happiness](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3f3a662ef29c55cd8bf2b203030f1171.jpg?itok=uRizr1Nb)
Layla's Happiness
Call Number: xz folio
![Book cover for Let the Children March](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/20f20397b22bcccb58cf9fbfe8c6b945.jpg?itok=jm40TmsG)
Let the Children March
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/5c269edbc46ddcf3f27cdaccc9d0e665.jpg?itok=mT8QESbR)
M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Mae Among the Stars](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/2415d70641ab5e9190a8c0b533aefae1.jpg?itok=AQ1NVIi4)
Mae Among the Stars
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/f74997c3e312cebf90f958f38832dc1e.jpg?itok=x3dAMLlR)
Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for The Quickest Kid in Clarksville](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/f7303ff90b45e7ee97640779d3f2fabc.jpg?itok=3txz6fal)
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
Call Number: xz
(Gr. K-2) Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
![Book cover for Saturday](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/68383b0a9aa4a692848a9bc04e22c01a.jpg?itok=oWMsTXiI)
Saturday
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for The Stuff of Stars](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8547c463d5742a6bd7abf0c36b23c553.jpg?itok=EzeK3csH)
The Stuff of Stars
Call Number: xz folio
![Book cover for This is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/d66a7b73a09c92aafd155f3cdadc5e63.jpg?itok=bCJxUbc4)
This is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
Call Number: xz
Grades K -3
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
Underground
Call Number: xz
(Grades K - 3) A family uses the Underground Railroad to escape slavery. Sparsely worded but powerful.
![Book cover for What is Given From the Heart](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/a9d7db814580b6f7cb60ee7a88efd31e.jpg?itok=GaR_igAp)
What is Given From the Heart
Call Number: xz
![Book cover for Woke Baby](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/c4db45e3496bfa6f700b4e4f947f47e7.jpg?itok=PJ0yHx8o)
Woke Baby
Call Number: xz