Our collection of picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) is available to the public. *Inclusion of a title in the collection DOES NOT EQUAL a recommendation.* Click here for more on book evaluation.
Find titles using a keyword search below (e.g. adoption, birthday, holidays, etc.), or by selecting one or a combination of filters on the lefthand sidebar below.
First time here? Start here!
385 matching books
Show FiltersFilter Results
-
Biography 385
-
Cross Group 98
-
Afghan 1
-
Antiguan 1
-
Canadian 4
-
Dutch 1
-
Egyptian 1
-
Eritrean 2
-
Gambian 1
-
German 4
-
Ghanaian 3
-
Guyanese 3
-
Haitian 3
-
Indian 4
-
Irish 1
-
Italian 1
-
Jamaican 4
-
Japanese 1
-
Kenyan 14
-
Kikuyu 1
-
Korean 1
-
Latvian 1
-
Malawian 1
-
Mexican 1
-
Moroccan 1
-
Multiethnic 24
-
Nigerian 1
-
Peruvian 1
-
Polish 2
-
Romanian 1
-
Russian 4
-
Slovak 1
-
Somali 2
-
Spanish 2
-
Sudanese 1
-
Unspecified 309
-
Xhosa 3
-
Yemeni 1
-
Zambian 1
-
Africa 32
-
Alabama 44
-
Antigua 1
-
Arctic 1
-
Arizona 2
-
Arkansas 7
-
Asia 7
-
Barbados 3
-
Brazil 7
-
California 34
-
Cameroon 1
-
Canada 11
-
China 2
-
Delaware 1
-
Ecuador 1
-
Egypt 3
-
England 5
-
Eritrea 2
-
Ethiopia 6
-
Europe 26
-
Florida 10
-
France 16
-
Gambia 1
-
Georgia 27
-
Germany 9
-
Ghana 3
-
Guyana 1
-
Haiti 1
-
Hawaii 3
-
Idaho 1
-
Illinois 22
-
India 4
-
Indiana 1
-
Iowa 1
-
Iran 1
-
Iraq 2
-
Israel 1
-
Italy 4
-
Jamaica 1
-
Japan 1
-
Kansas 9
-
Kentucky 13
-
Kenya 11
-
Louisiana 14
-
Maine 1
-
Malawi 1
-
Mali 1
-
Maryland 21
-
Michigan 13
-
Mississippi 11
-
Missouri 15
-
Montana 1
-
Morocco 1
-
Nebraska 1
-
Nevada 2
-
New Jersey 14
-
New York 103
-
Nigeria 1
-
Northern America 314
-
Norway 2
-
Oceania 6
-
Ohio 8
-
Oklahoma 5
-
Oregon 1
-
Pennsylvania 21
-
Peru 2
-
Poland 2
-
Romania 1
-
Russia 1
-
Somalia 2
-
Spain 3
-
Sudan 1
-
Tanzania 1
-
Tennessee 18
-
Texas 11
-
Virginia 21
-
Yemen 1
-
Zambia 2
-
Zimbabwe 2
-
Activism 165
-
Adoption 2
-
Disability 25
-
STEM 39
-
Fiction 35
-
Non-Fiction 350
-
Boy/Man 296
-
Girl/Woman 260
-
Background 42
-
Dominant Main 315
-
Joint Main 35
-
Secondary 239
Rosa
Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movement that resulted in the end of the segregated South
Catching the moon
"A picture book biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga, the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team"--Provided by publisher
Take a picture of me, James Van Der Zee!
A biography of James Van Der Zee, innovative and celebrated African American photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an afterword, photos, and author's sources.--Publisher
Sweet land of liberty
The story of Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday concert in 1939 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Sojourner Truth
A biography of Sojourner Truth, who fought for the abolition of slavery and women's rights in nineteenth-century America.
Fly high!
Discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921
One plastic bag
"Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? In Njau, Gambia, people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag became two. Then ten. Then a hundred. ... Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community"--Dust jacket
My brother Martin
Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister. Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister. "Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated South of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history
Ira’s Shakespeare dream
"A biography chronicling the life of Ira Aldridge, an African American actor who is considered to be one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--|cProvided by publisher