Black History Month

These Black History Month picture books work for February displays, classroom read-alouds, and year-round reading. They include biography, community stories, and books that help children connect history to identity, justice, and everyday life.

Firebird

Misty Copeland

Christopher Myers

A young dancer hears encouragement from Misty Copeland in a soaring ode to discipline and artistic becoming.

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Seven Spools of Thread

Angela Shelf Medearis

Daniel Minter

In this retelling rooted in Ghana, seven brothers must find a way to turn inheritance into something shared and useful.

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Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford

R. Gregory Christie

This lyrical historical picture book centers the weekly gathering place where enslaved Africans in New Orleans sustained culture and community.

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Together for Kwanzaa

Juwanda G. Ford

Shelly Hehenberger

A family gathers across seven nights of Kwanzaa, centering ritual, memory, and Black cultural continuity.

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All Because You Matter

Tami Charles

Bryan Collier

This affirming address to Black children holds beauty, vulnerability, fear, and love in the same breath.

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Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Laura Freeman

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.

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Mae Among the Stars

Roda Ahmed

Stasia Burrington

Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.

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Radiant Child

Javaka Steptoe

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.

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Hoop Queens

Charles R. Smith Jr.

Frank Morrison

Poetic text and motion-filled art celebrate girls and women who own the basketball court.

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I Am Enough

Grace Byers

Keturah A. Bobo

This affirmation-rich picture book invites children to value themselves and still make room for one another.

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