30 Black children’s books for every kid's library.

Representation matters and it starts in the home. As we were creating the library for our boys, I knew I wanted books that looked like them. Books they could read and identify with.

I know for me growing up, I didn’t have books that looked like me. I struggled with my self identity most of my childhood & I didn’t want my boys to experience the same. So I put together a list of books that would be so beneficial for every kid’s library, whether you’re black or white.

Shop all these books here and purchase Beautiful Beautiful Me here.

1. Beautiful Beautiful Me- Ashley Chea

2. I am Enough- Grace Byers

3. Explorers of the Wild-Cale Atkinson 

4. Mixed Me!- Taye Diggs

5. Good Morning Superman- Michael Dahl and Omar Lozano

6. Please Baby Please- Spike Lee , Tonya Lewis Lee 

7. Dream Big Little One-Vashti Harrison

8. When God Made You- Matthew Paul Turner and David Catrow

9. Brown Bear Brown Bear- Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle

10. The Jesus Storybook Bible- Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jago 

11. Peekaboo Morning-  Rachel Isadora 

12. Every Little Thing-  Bob Marley, Cedella Marley  

13. One Love- Bob Marley, Cedella Marley 

14. I am Martin Luther King Jr.- Brad Meltzer

15. I am Brave- Brad Meltzer

16. Chocolate Me! Taye Diggs

17. Skin Like Mine- LaTashia M. Perry

18. I love my Hair-Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E. B. Lewis

19. Brown Boy Joy- Dr. Thomishia Booker

20. I am so Brave- Stephen Krensky and Sara Gillingham

21. Woke Baby- Mahogany L. Browne and Theodore Taylor III 

22. Salt in his shoes-  Deloris Jordan (Author), Roslyn M. Jordan (Author), Kadir Nelson

23. Dancing in the Wings- Debbie Allen and Kadir Nelson

24. Hair Love- Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison 

25. Hey Black Child- Useni Eugene Perkins and Bryan Collier 

26. Hair Like Mine- LaTashia M. Perry

27. Crown- Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James

28. I am Harriet Tubman- Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos

29. Boy who Never Gave Up-Stephen Curry

30. Sulwe-Lupita Nyong'o