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Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Kids
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"Explore essential titles selected by the Schomburg Center as it marks 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture. "

Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan (author and Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.1.B838 B4 2003
ISBN: 9780689847318
Year: 2004
Illustrator Winner
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: PS3573.O64524 Z46 2014
ISBN: 0399252517
Year: 2015
Author Winner
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.B26154 C76 2017
ISBN: 9781572842243
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson; Rafael López (Illustrator); Rafael López (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.W868 D39 2018
ISBN: 9780399246531
Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton; Ann Grifalconi (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.3.C573 E94 1988
ISBN: 9780805008005

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Call Number: E185 .N427 2011
ISBN: 9780061730740
Year: 2012
Author Winner
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood by James Baldwin; Yoran Cazac (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3552.A45 L5 1976
ISBN: 0803748590
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.7.C734 N4 2019
ISBN: 0062691198
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Call Number: PZ8.1.H154 P46 1985
ISBN: 0394869257

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Call Number: PZ7.T21723 R6 2001
ISBN: 0803726473
Year: 1977
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.1.N96 S85 2019
ISBN: 9781534425361
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (author and Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.R4726 T37 1991
ISBN: 0517580306
Year: 1992
Illustrator Winner
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Call Number: PS3601.L35388 U53 2019
ISBN: 1328780961
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Year: 2020

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