Read Aloud Books for Black History Month

February 11, 2019 | agudenburr

Looking for books to read with your child for Black History Month? Here are just a few of our books we have about African American history and African American biographies. 

Dream big, little one by Vashti Harrison
Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, stagecoach driver by Tami Charles
African-American history makers collection : readers that grow with you
Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace
Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Mae among the stars by Roda Ahmed
The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist by Cynthia Levinson
Sisters & champions : the true story of Venus and Serena Williams by 1968- Howard Bryant
The vast wonder of the world : biologist Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
I have a dream by 1929-1968 Jr. Martin Luther King
Malcolm Little : the boy who grew up to become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America by 1956- Carole Boston Weatherford
Henry's freedom box by Ellen Levine
Preaching to the chickens : the story of young John Lewis by 1962- Jabari Asim
This is the rope : a story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
Let's clap, jump, sing & shout; dance, spin & turn it out! : games, songs & stories from an African American childhood by 1944-2017 Pat McKissack
Before she was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Lillian's right to vote : a celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by 1962- Jonah Winter
Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down by Andrea Davis Pinkney