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10 best books like In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers (Javaka Steptoe): Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Insectlopedia, Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children, Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, I Lost My Tooth In Africa, Ellington Was Not a Street, The Blacker the Berry, The Bat Boy & His Violin, Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1932425128
There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...
Insectlopedia
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN0152163352
I am not big on insects but this book was so much fun to read. Many of the poems have rhythm. In The Army Ants poem it sounds like the ants are marching as you read the poem. Other poems are shaped like the insect or what the insect does and have rhythm.In the Inchworm you can almost see the inchworm moving up and...
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
AuthorSandra L. Pinkney
ISBN0439148928
I am black. I am unique.

Let's talk about racism! Ah, yes, I can see you heading for the exit already. That's okay, I totally get it. It's a rough topic. For those of you still with me:

How do you teach a child about racism or tell him/her about it? I don't know. I don't have a flippin' clue....
Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace
AuthorAnna Grossnickle Hines
ISBN0805089969
I can honestly say I absolutely LOVED this book! I really thought is was neat how the author made each page look life like and real I loved all of the different kinds of poems throughout the whole book. The use of colors were really great. I thought it was great how the author portrays and teaches young readers...
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0679883479
This book first appeared in 1932. It is still a great read for all ages today. Langston Hughes made a huge impact on my life because he was anthologized often in my literature books.

Here is a famous one:

"Dreams"

Hold onto dreams
For if dreams die
Life is like a broken-winged...
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
AuthorPenda Diakité
ISBN0439662265
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.

More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
Ellington Was Not a Street
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0689828845
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color...
The Blacker the Berry
AuthorJoyce Carol Thomas
ISBN0060253754
Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous poetry collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of...
The Bat Boy & His Violin
AuthorGavin Curtis
ISBN0689841159
Reginald loves to create beautiful music on his violin. But Papa, manager of the Dukes, the worst team in the Negro National League, needs a bat boy, not a "fiddler," and traveling with the Dukes doesn't leave Reginald much time for practicing.

Soon the Dukes' dugout is filled with Beethoven,...
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN1402210485
Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet,...
Meet Danitra Brown
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0688154719
Grimes, N. (1997). Meet Danitra Brown. (F. Cooper, Illus.). New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Genre: Poetry, Juvenile poetry Recommended grade level: 3-4 Format: African American Poetry and Picture book
Themes: Friendship, bullying, and family Major Awards: Coretta Scott King Illustrator...
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN1452101191
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
Dear Juno
AuthorSoyung Pak
ISBN0142300179
Juno's grandmother writes in Korean and Juno writes in drawings, but that doesn't mean they can't exchange letters. From the photo his grandmother sends him, Juno can tell that she has a new cat. From the picture he makes for her, Juno's grandmother can tell that he wants her to come for a visit. So she sends...
One Green Apple
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0618434771
Farah feels alone, even when surrounded by her classmates. She listens and nods but doesn’t speak. It’s hard being the new kid in school, especially when you’re from another country and don’t know the language. Then, on a field trip to an apple orchard, Farah discovers there are lots of things...
black is brown is tan
AuthorArnold Adoff
ISBN0064432696
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
Read! Read! Read!
AuthorAmy Ludwig VanDerwater
We read. We read for reasons varying from day to day from the time we first read until the last time we read. We read to know and to grow. We read to find ourselves and to find others. We read for the laughter, the joy, and the hope. We read.

Whether you are a new reader or a reader having spent decades...
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805098763
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in this collection come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive...
Boundless Grace
AuthorMary Hoffman
ISBN0803717156
I enjoyed reading this book because it helps to assuage some of the anxieties students with divorced or LGBT parents face when being compared to "normal" heterosexual ones. The author makes clear the path of acceptance, in that the main character should not feel bad about having a divorced family because...
Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
AuthorElizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
ISBN0618120386
When Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) was first published in 1991, it met with an overwhelming response from readers and reviewers alike. Here was “a wonderful family story,” as The Horn Book Magazine said, “set matter-of-factly in an African-American environment.” Since then,...
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
AuthorJanice N. Harrington
ISBN0374312516
Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is "fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite." Our chicken...
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
AuthorEloise Greenfield
ISBN0061259217
We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life.

When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved from their home in Parmele, North Carolina, to...
Subway
AuthorChristoph Niemann
ISBN0061577790
I adore this book! I found it in New York City, on Halloween. I was nerdily delighted to read this page:

Next up is our favorite train, the F.
We meet a tourist, a banker, a chef.
Witches and cowboys can sometimes be seen
(perhaps not today, but on Halloween).

The art is abstract,...
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