Resources

2025 Symposium Journal Program

Black English Books for Children

As Fast As Words Could Fly 

by Pamela Tuck

Reading Age:  7 – 12 years

Back of the Bus 

by Aaron Reynolds

Reading Age:  6 – 8 years

Bedtime Bonnet 

by Nancy Redd

Reading Age:  3 months – 3 years

Bird 

by Zetta Elliott

Reading Age:  6 – 8 years

Crown – An Ode to the Fresh Cut

by Derick Barnes

Reading Age:  4 – 8 years

Daddy Calls Me Man

by Angela Johnson

Reading Age:  3 – 5 years

Do Like Kyla 

by Angela Johnson

Reading Age:  4 yrs – 6 yrs

Flossie & The Fox

by Patricia McKissack 

Reading Age:  4 – 8 years

Going Down Home With Daddy

by Kelly Starling Lyons

Reading Age:  4 yrs – 8 yrs

Honey Baby Sugar Child

by Alice Faye Duncan

Reading Age:  3 – 6 years

I Got the School Spirit

by Connie Schofield-Morrison

Reading Age: 3 – 6 years

Last Stop on Market Street

by Matt de la Pena

Reading Age:  2 – 6 years

Let the Children March

by Monica Clark-Robinson

Reading Age:  5 – 10 years

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop

by Alice Faye Duncan

Reading Age:  7 – 10 years

Pecan Pie Baby

by Jacqueline Woodson

Reading Age:  5 – 8 years

Sunday Shopping

by Sally Derby

Reading Age:  5 – 8 years

So Much

by Trish Cook

Reading Age:  1 – 5 years

She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl

by Eloise Greenfield

Reading Age:  4 – 8 years

Tar Beach

by Faith Ringgold

Reading Age:  6 – 11 years

The Electric Slide and Kai

by Kelly Baptist

Reading Age:  5 – 8 years

The Hula Hoopin Queen

by Thelma Lynne Godin

Reading Age:  3 – 8 years

The Making of Butterflies

by Zora neale Hurston

Reading Age:  Baby – 4 years

The Quickest Kid in Clarksville

by Pat Zietlow Miller

Reading Age:  5 – 8 years

The Youngest Marcher

by Cynthia Levinson

Reading Age:  5 – 12 years

Trombone Shorty

by Troy Andrews

Reading Age:  3 – 8 years

Working Cotton

by Sherley Anne. Williams

Reading Age:  4 – 8 years

Yesterday I Had the Blues

by Jeron Ashford Frame

Reading Age:  3 – 7 years

Yo Yes

by Chris Raschka

Reading Age:  3 – 7 years

Run Tell Dat