Folk Tales

Author

Title

Grade level

·        Eric Kimmel

Anansi and the Talking Melon

K-5

·        Gerald McDermott

Anansi the Spider

K-5

·        Gerald McDermott

Zomo the Rabbit

K-3

·        Bobby and Sherry Norfolk

Anansi Goes to Lunch

K-5

·        Bobby and Sherry Norfolk

Anansi and the Tug O’War

K-3

·        Eric Kimmel

Anansi and the Magic Stick

K-5

·        Eric Kimmel

Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock

K-5

·        Eric Kimmel

Anansi Goes Fishing

K-5

·        Gail Haley

A Story, A Story

3-6

·        Nelson Mandela

Favorite African Folktales

K-8

·        Susan Kantor

African American Read Aloud Stories

K-6

·        Virginia Hamilton

The People Could Fly

3-12

·        Pete Seeger

Abiyoyo

K-5

·        Verna Ardema

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

2-4

·        Verna Ardema

Traveling to Tondo

2-4

·        Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss

The well of Truth

2-5

·        Angela Shelf Medearis

Too Much Talk

K-4

Underground Railroad

·        Sharon Shavers Gayle

Escape

3-6

·        Ellen Levine

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

3-6

·        Ellen Levine

Henry’s Freedom Box

2-5

·        Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd

2-6

·        Faith Ringgold

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky

2-4

·        Catherine Nichols

Harriet Tubman

2-4

·        Monica Kulling

Escape North: The Story of Harriet Tubman

2-4

·        Vaunda Nelson

Almost to Freedom

3-6

·        Catherine Nichols

Harriet Tubman

2-4

·        Florence Freedman

Two Tickets to Freedom

4-8

·        David Adler

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

2-4

·        Jim Haskins

Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad

6-12

Depression Era

·        Angela Shelf Medearis

Picking Peas for a Penny

K-3

·        Barbara H. Cole

Wash Day

K-3

·        Polly Greenburg

O Lord, I Wish I Was a Buzzard

K-2

·        Jacqueline Woodson

Coming on Home Soon

2-4

·        Margaret King Mitchell

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop

3-5

Civil Rights Era

·        Robert Coles

The Story of Ruby Bridges

3-5

·        Faith Ringgold

If a Bus Could Talk

3-5

·        Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges Goes to School

1-3

·        Courtney Baker

Let’s read about Rosa Parks

2-4

·        Richard Kelso

Walking for Freedom

4-6

·        Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

Rosa Parks: My Story

6-12

George Washington Carver

·        Eva Moore

The Story of George Washington Carver

3-5

·        Tonya Bolden

George Washington Carver

4-8

·        Jim Gigliotti

Who Was George Washington Carver?

3-8

·        Elizabeth MacLeod

George Washington Carver

5-12

Martin Luther King

·        Garret Jackson

Martin Luther King, Jr: A Man of Peace

2-5

·        Margaret Davidson

I Have a Dream

4-6

·        Ellen Levine

If You Lived in the Time of Martin Luther King

4-8

·        Jim Haskins

The Day Martin Luther King Was Shot

6-12

·        Jean Marzollo

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King

2-4

·        David Adler

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.

2-4

·        Alyse Sweeney

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man with a Dream

K-2

·        Doreen Rappaport

Martin’s Big Words

K-3

Discrimination

·        Desmond Tutu

Desmond and the Very Mean Word

K-4

·        Margaret Mason

These Hands

2-4

·        Patricia Polacco

Mr. Lincoln’s Way

3-6

·        Rose Blue

Ron’s Big Mission

3-6

·        Patricia McKissack

Going Some Place Special

3-6

·        William Miller

Richard Wright and the Library Card

3-6

Black Leaders

·        Margaret Davidson

Frederick Douglas Fights for Freedom

4-8

·        Beatrice Gormley

Barack Obama: Our 44^th President

4-12

·        Roberta Edwards

Who Is Barack Obama

4-9

·        Megan Stine

Who Is Michelle Obama

4-9

·        Wade Hudson

Five Brave Explorers

4-6

·        Toyomi Igus

Great Women in the Struggle

6-12

·        Wade Hudson

Book of Black Heroes from A-Z

4-12

·        Jim Haskins

One More River to Cross

6-12

·        Faith Ringgold

Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House

3-6

·        Marie Bradby

More Than Anything Else

3-5

Life in Africa

·        Katie Smith Milway

One Hen

3-6

·        Page McBrier

Beatrice’s Goat

1-4

·        Jane Cowen Fletcher

It Takes a Village

K-3

·        Barbara Margolies

Rehema’s Journey

3-5

Black Inventors

·        Wendy Towle

The Real McCoy: The Life of African American Inventor

4-8

·        Kareen Abdul Jabbar

What Color Is My World?

4-12

·        Louis Haber

Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

6-12

·        Jeri Ferris

What Are You Figuring Now: A Story about Benjamin Banneker

3-8

Black Musicians

·        Pam Munoz Ryan

When Marian Sang

4-8

·        Yona Zeidos

Who Was Louis Armstrong

4-6

·        Terry Teachout

Pops: Life of Louis Armstrong

8-12

·        David Francis and Bob Reiser

David Gets His Drum

2-4

·        Jim Haskins

Black Dance in America

4-6

·        Jim Haskins

Black Music in America

4-8

·        Jim Haskins

Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime

6-12

Black Athletes

·        David Adler

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

2-4

·        Eloise Greenfield

For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me

2-4

Black Authors

·        Mildred D. Taylor

 Let the Circle be Unbroken

4-9

·        Mildred D. Taylor

The Road to Memphis

4-9

·        Mildred D. Taylor

The Friendship

3-5

·        Mildred D. Taylor

The Gold Cadillac

3-5

·        Mildred Pitts Walter

Justin and the best Biscuits in the World

3-5

·         Mildred Pitts Walter

My Mama Needs Me

K-2

·        Patricia McKissack

Run Away Home

3-6

·        Patricia McKissack

Can You Imagine?

3-6

·        Angela Shelf Medearis

Dancing with the Indians

K-3

·        Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

5-9

·        John Steptoe

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

2-5

Black Poets

·        Wade Hudson

Pass it On: African American Poetry for Children

3-8

·        James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing

4-8

·        Ellen Labrecque

Who Was Maya Angelou

4-8

·        Langston Hughes

My People

K-4

·         

Black Artists

·        Jacob Lawrence

The Great Migration

4-8

·        John Duggleby

Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence

4-12

·        Faith Ringgold

(Any of her books)

·        Kathy Whitehead and Shane Evans

Art From Her Heart: Clementine Hunter

3-8

·        Jerry Pinkney

Home Place

3-6

Modern Day Life

·        Juanita Harill

Jamaica Tag Along

K-3

·        Juanita Harill

Jamaica’s Find

K-3

·        Dolores Johnson

What Kind of Babysitter Is This?

1-4

·        Mary Hoffman

Boundless Grace

2-5

·        Mary Hoffman

Amazing Grace

K-3

·        Kimberly Willis Holt

 Mister and Me

4-6

·        Will Smith

Just the Two of Us

K-3

·        Gwendolyn Hooks

Three’s a Crowd

K-3

·        Ezra Jack Keats

Whistle for Willie

K-2

·        Ezra Jack Keats

Pete’s Chair

K-2

·        Dolores Johnson

 My Mom Is My Show and Tell

K-1

·        Alice Mead

Junebug

2-5

Inspiration

·        Desmond Tutu

God’s Dream

K-3

·        Leo and Diane Dillon

If Kids Ran the World

K-3

·        Michelle Cook

Our Children Can Soar

K-3

·        Leo and Diane Dillon

To Everything there is a Season

K-3

·        Barack Obama

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

K-3

·        Bryan Collier

Lift Every Voice and Sing