Welcome to Books for Black Kids!
We aim to be the largest directory for children’s books—from infants to high school/young adult literature—with a Black protagonist and/or a Black author.
Whether you’re looking for a certain genre, language, topic, reading age, author, or country, we hope you’ll find what you need here. We also plan on curating educational materials, resources for parents, and even scholarships to nurture Black children and families.
Books from renowned writers and publishers as well as newcomers and self-published authors are listed here. Authors of all backgrounds are welcome as long as their books feature a Black leading character.
This is a work in progress, but we hope it’ll serve as a resource for years to come. There are thousands of books we’ve yet to cover (and hundreds on the site already with incomplete entries), but we hope to list as many as possible over time.
*Currently a one-woman project. “We” is “me, myself, and I.”