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 numerous book collections based on a wide variety of 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!
Recent Books:
Have You Seen This Book? ~ Angela DiTerlizzi
A young boy’s favorite book is missing. Throughout the story, he asks, “Have you seen this book?” and describes the missing book page by page ...
Malaika’s Winter Carnival ~ Nadia L. Hohn
After living with her grandma, Malaika is excited to be back with her mother again. However, she is uncertain about her new blended family, Mr ...
My Family Celebrates Kwanzaa ~ Lisa Bullard
Follow along as a young boy shares his family's experience celebrating Kwanzaa. With critical thinking and recall questions incorporated at the end of each chapter, ...
The Christmas Book Flood ~ Emily Kilgore
Based on a holiday tradition in Ireland, this book allows readers to share in the anticipation and excitement of the Book Flood. Centered around the ...
Ellray Jakes Rocks the Holidays ~ Sally Warner
Third-grader E.J. is excited about Christmas. But, before he can start celebrating, he is tasked with memorizing lines to recite at the school Winter Wonderland ...
Ty’s Travels: Winter Wonderland ~ Kelly Starling Lyons
Ty wakes up to a winter Wonderland. He and his mother venture out to the “North Pole” and see many marvelous things. Sparkling Christmas trees ...
Jabari Jumps ~ Gaia Cornwall
After completing his swim lessons and passing his swim test, Jabari is ready to jump off the diving board...or is he? He lets others go ...
Little Leaders ~ Vashti Harrison
I absolutely love this book! It features 40+ African American women who made huge strides throughout history. The pages are filled with adorable illustrations and ...
Featured Books:
Ben’s Trumpet ~ Rachel Isadora
Ben loves to play his pretend trumpet while listening to the music coming from the Zig Zag Jazz Club ...
Grandma in Blue with Red Hat ~ Scott Menchin
This is a great story that combines a boy's love and appreciation for both art and his grandma! ...
Brown ~ Nancy Johnson James
I absolutely love this book! It celebrates the color of our skin and cleverly names many of the shades of brown. From mama’s chocolate brown ...
Bigger Than Daddy ~ Harriet Ziefert
My boys absolutely loved this book! It is about a little boy (Edward) who want to be big...as high as an airplane, as tall as ...
Can You Dance, Dalila? ~ Virginia Kroll
This is a fun little story about a girl and her developing interest in dance. She attempts many forms of dance including the jig, line ...
Two Problems for Sophia ~ Jim Averbeck
This is a fun story about a girl and her two giraffe-sized problems; her pet giraffe's long tongue that gives long, sloppy, slurpy kisses and ...
Have You Seen Elephant? ~ David Barrow
This is about a cute little boys and his imaginary friends elephant and turtle. He plays hide and seek with elephant, who is surprisingly very ...
I Am Perfectly Designed ~ Karamo Brown
Through a conversation between father and son, this book encourages readers to love themselves and know that they are perfectly designed ...
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