Welcome

Welcome to “Brown Like Me” Books, a site dedicated to showcasing picture books for kids that feature black characters! Here, I not only provide personal book reviews, but I also share book collections based on specific topics.

Wondering how this site got it’s name and why it was started? Read the back-story here!

Want to see some of the featured books and collections found on the site? Keep scrolling!

Featured Books:

These Hands ~ Hope Lynne Price

This is a poetic picture book about the power and beauty of our hands and all of the wonderful things that can come from our ...
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Marigold Fairy Makes a Friend ~ Elizabeth Dennis

Marigold Fairy lives in the land of Flower Wings. She grows vegetables and keeps the pests away from the garden ...
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My America ~ Jan Spivey Gilchrist

his book is an illustrated poem that celebrates the the beauty and diversity of America's people, landscape, and wildlife ...
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Racing Around ~ Stuart J. Murphy

This is a living math book about perimeter. Mike wants to ride his bike in the annual 15-kilometer race like his older siblings Justin and ...
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Ballerina Girl by Kirsten Hall

This rhyming, My First Reader book is about a girl who dresses up and pretends she's a ballerina performing on stage ...
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Being Friends ~ Karen Beaumont

This is a cute rhyming book about two friends. Despite their many differences, they both treasure their friendship with one another ...
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Nobody Owns the Sky ~ Reeve Lindbergh

The brave Bessie Coleman was a dare-devil stunt flyer in air shows around the United States during the 1920s. She became the first black aviator ...
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Girls Hold Up This World ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

My daughter loved this book. While we were reading it, she emphatically announced that "girl's rule!" This book features beautiful photographs of females of all ...
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