"Brown Like Me" Books
Books for Kids Featuring Black Characters
My daughter loved reading her "Addy" books. I used to read the series aloud to her at night. This is the second book in the series. In this book Addy and her mother make it to Philadelphia and begin their new life of freedom.
My kids really enjoyed this book! It's about a little girl who happily goes about her daily routine.
Like many children in Kenya, Ndito runs a long distance to get to school. As she runs through her village, she calls up animal dreams to keep her company.
This is a great little Read-it! Readers book for beginning readers. It is about a boy named Max who likes to read and write.
This is a cute rhyming story about the first day of kindergarten. From story time to recess; from lunch time to clean up, kindergarten is cool!
This is a Rookie Reader book about a little boy who helps pack his lunch. However, once he gets to school he realizes that his friend forgot his lunch, so he decides to share.
This is a Read-it! Readers book about Max, a young boy who loves to ride the bus to school. In fact he loves riding the bus so much that he can't wait for school to end just so that he can ride the bus again.
A young African girl desires to go to school like her older brother. However, due to her mother's death, she must spend all her time doing household chores and caring for her younger sisters.
While this book is beautifully illustrated, it's message is equally as beautiful! "There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you."
Elizabeti experiences her first day of school. However, soon after arriving, she begins to miss her family and begins to wonder if they miss her as much as she misses them.
Virgie was always begging to go to school with the boys. Finally, it was agreed that "girls need to read and write and do 'rithmetic' too" and that Virgie was finally old enough to join the boys on the 7 mile journey to the school started by the Quakers.
David decided to draw the beautiful tree that he saw on the way to school on winter mornings. While at school, all his classmates wanted to chip in and add something to his drawing.
Conner is the student of the week in his new class. His classmate, Lenny, goes home with Conner and uses a camera to snap pictures of the new student of the week.
This is a sweet story about classmates who celebrate their fathers by making books about their dads and the things they love about them.
This is a simple rhyming book about some school age kids. They use various artistic mediums to prepare for what seems to be a school presentation of what they want to be when they grow up.
"I must be brave, I must be strong," Ruby repeats as she walks to school. While on her "journey" she faces a rushing river full of crocodiles, a haunted house with ghosts, bats, and witches, a tiger with fangs and jagged claws, and more!
The class takes a fieldtrip to an apple orchard. The rhyming story is a countdown of the many things the students see and experience on the fieldtrip.
In this book, children not only indicate what they would do if they ran for president, but the book also provides an excellent overview of the election process.
Lily's dad bought her a cat mask and she wore it everywhere she went...except when her teacher told her it was a distraction in class and she could only wear it during recess.
While Adam loved his new home in the tall tower in the city, he missed his old home. The city was gray and empty.
