List of Children's books to help explain race

[Englewood Public Library]

This list contains some Children's books that may be useful to explain race to children:

I Am Enough by Grace Byers

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Angela Davis Pinkney

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Angela Davis Pinkney

Who Was Frederick Douglass? by April Jones Prince

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport

We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorrell

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson