


H4K Parents' Top Picks of Children's Books
These are some of our parents' top picks.
Thank you to all those that have contributed to this great list of books!
Beautiful Ballerina, by Marilyn Nelson
Bee-Bim Bop!, by Linda Sue Park and Ho Baek Lee
Bintou's Braids, by Sylvianne Diouf
Black is White is Tan, by Arnold Adoff and Emily Arnold Mccully
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, by Cheryl Willis Hudson and George Ford
Children Just Like Me, by Anabel Kindersley and Barnabas Kindersley
Corduroy series, by Dan Freeman
Dancing in the Wings, by Debbie Allen and Kadir Nelson
Ellington Was Not a Street, by Ntozake Shange
First Family, by Deborah Hopkinson and Ag Ford
Frida, by Jonah Winter and Ana Juan
Global Babies, by The Global Fund for Children
God's Dream, by Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams and LeUyen Pham
Hairs/Pelitos, by Sandra Cisneros (bilingual book about hair)
I Am Latino: The Beauty in Me, by Myles Pinkney and Sandra Pinkney
I Love My Hair, by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E.B. Lewis
I Love to Color (Yo Gabba Gabba!), by Lisa Rao
JoJo's Flying Sidekick, by Brian Pinkney
Jump at the Sun Fairytale Classics, by John Kurtz
Lily Brown's Paintings, by Angela Johnson and E. B. Lewis
Little Diva, by LaChanze and Brian Pinkney
Little Lion Goes to School, by Kellie Magnus
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, by John Steptoe
My Rows and Piles of Coins, by Tololwa M. Mollel and E. B. Lewi
Of thee I sing: A letter to My Daughter, by Barack Obama
Peekaboo Morning, by Rachel Isadora
Peter's Chair, by Ezra Jack Keats
Please, Baby, Please, by Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelson
Pretty Brown Face, by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Ruby Booker and the Booker Boys series, by Derrick Barnes
Ruby's Wish, by Shirin Yim and Sophie Blackall
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children, by Sandra L. Pinkney
Sleeping Cutie, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
The Colors of Us, by Karen Katz
The Family Book, by Todd Parr
The Hat That Wore Clara B., by Melanie Turner-Denstaedt
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Thumbelina and other books, by Brian Pinkney
Welcome, Precious, by Nikki Grimes
Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox and Leslie Staub
Yesterday I Had the Blues, by Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Gregory Christie
Now Hiring: White House Dog, by Gina Bazer and Renanah Lehner
Various Books, by Faith Ringgold