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:
Rapunzel ~ Rachel Isadora
This is a unique, beautifully illustrated interpretation of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. I was most drawn to this book because the pages are ...
The Friendly Four ~ Eloise Greenfield
Drummond declared that summer’s a bummer because there were no kids on his block to play with. Little by little everything changed when Dorene moved ...
Brick by Brick ~ Charles R. Smith Jr.
Did you know that slaves helped build the original White House? This book, along with the commentary at the end of the book, chronicle what ...
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 ...
Jazz ~ Walter Dean Myers
A celebration of jazz music, this beautifully illustrated book includes a glossary of jazz terms as well as a history of jazz timeline ...
Across the Alley ~ Richard Michelson
I began reading this book to my kids and after a few pages I stopped. It is about two boys who live across the alley ...
Me & Neesie ~ Eloise Greenfield
This book is about a girl named Janell and her imaginary friend Neesie. Although my kids do not currently have any imaginary friends (at least ...
Calling the Water Drum ~ LaTisha Redding
This story saddened me. A young boy and his parents secretly left Haiti in the middle of the night with just enough money to buy ...
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