A Celebration of Identity:
Black Men and Boys in
Children’s and
Young Adult Literature
Prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD
For the Summit
Building a Bridge to Literacy for African American Male Youth
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
June 3-5, 2012
Picture Books
Biographies
Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier’s
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christine Farris and Chris Soentpiet’s
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing up with
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, and Benny Andrews’s
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
Eloise Greenfield and George Ford’s
Paul Robeson
Roslyn Jordan, Deloris Jordan, and Kadir Nelson’s
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
Quincy Troupe and Lisa Cohen’s
Little Stevie Wonder
Charles R. Smith and Bryan Collier’s
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
Nikki Grimes and Bryan Collier’s
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
Jane Halfmann and Duane Smith’s
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
Crystal Hubbard and Robert McGuire’s
The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
Elizabeth MacLeod’s
George Washington Carver: An Innovative Life
Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson’s
I and I
William Miller and Rodney S. Pate’s
Joe Louis, My Champion
Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney’s
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Chris Raschka’s
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Gaylia Taylor and Frank Morrison’s
George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
Wendy Towle and Wil Clay’s
The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor
Floyd Cooper’s
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes
Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s
Satchel Paige
William Miller and R. Gregory Christie’s
Richard Wright and the Library Card
Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s
Young Pelé: Soccer’s First Star
Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s
Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and A. G. Ford’s
What Color Is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors
Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins’s
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly
Lynne Barasch’s
Knockin’ on Wood Starring Peg Leg Bates
Robert Andrew Parker’s
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
Kai Jackson Issa and Arthur L. Dawson’s
Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie’s
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
Crystal Hubbard and Kevin Belford’s
Game Set Match Champion: Arthur Ashe
Tonya Bolden and R. Gregory Christie’s
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali
Yona Zeldis McDonough and Malcah Zeldis’s
Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela
Floyd Cooper’s
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman
John Duggleby and Jacob Lawrence’s
Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
Sharon Bell Mathis and George Ford’s
Ray Charles
Robert Burleigh and Marek Los’s
Lookin’ for Bird in the Big City
Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls’s
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
David Wisniewski’s
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
Kephra Burns, Leo and Diane Dillon’s
Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali
Marie Bradby and Chris Soenpiet’s
More Than Anything Else
Picture Books
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Jeri Hanel Watts and Felicia Marshall’s
Keepers
John Steptoe and E. B. Lewis’s
Creativity
Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’s
Joe-Joe’s First Flight
Lucille Clifton’s
Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Edwidge Danticat and Alix Delinois’s
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti
Mary Hoffman and Karen Littlewood’s
The Colour of Home
Frané Lessac’s
My Little Island
Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’s
Bippity Bob Barbershop
Wade Hudson’s
Jamal’s Busy Day
Brian Jordan, Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu’s
I Told You I Can Play!
Brian Pinkney’s
Max Found Two Sticks
Chris Raschka’s
Yo! Yes!
Irene Smalls-Hector and Michael Hays’s
Jonathan and His Mommy
Javaka Steptoe’s
The Jones Family Express
John Steptoe’s
Stevie
Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie’s
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Shane Evans’s
Olu’s Dream
Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransome’s
Visiting Day
Youme’s
Sélavi: A Haitian Story of Hope
Nikki Grimes and Mike Benny’s
Oh, Brother!
Bryan Collier’s
Uptown
Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren’s
Josias, Hold the Book
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and Aaron Boyd’s
Babu’s Song
Tolowa Mollel and E. B. Lewis’s
My Rows and Piles of Coins
Cristina Kessler and Leonard Jenkins’s
Best Beekeeper of Lalibela
Elizabeth Alalou and Julie Klear Essakalli’s
The Butter Man
Clifton L. Taulbert and E. B. Lewis’s
Little Cliff’s First Day of School
Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s
Daddy Calls Me a Man
Wade Hudson’s
It’s Church Going Time
Denize Lauture’s
Father and Son
Jerdine Nolen and Kadir Nelson’s
Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
G. Francis Johnson, Gail Johnson, & Dimitrea Tokunbo’s
Has Anybody Lost a Glove?
Picture Books
Historical Fiction
Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s
The Old African
Angela Johnson and Loren Long’s
I Dream of Trains
Angela Johnson’s and Loren Long’s
Wind Flyers
Andrea Davis Pinkney and J. Brian Pinkney’s
Sit-In:
How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Patricia McKissack and Leo and Diane Dillon’s
Never Forgotten
Deborah Hopkinson and Raúl Colón’s
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
William Miller and Charlotte Riley Webb’s
Rent Party Jazz
Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransome’s
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Shane W. Evan’s
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Lorenzo Pace’s
Jalani and the Lock
Tim Tingle and Jeanne Rorex Bridges’ s
Crossing Bok Chitto:
A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Carol Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue’s
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Debbie A. Taylor and Frank Morrison’s
Sweet Music in Harlem
Richard Michelson and E. B. Lewis’s
Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me
Jacob Lawrence’s
The Great Migration: An American Story
Glenda Armand and Colin Bootman’s
Love Twelve Miles Long
Gavin Curtis and E. B. Lewis’s
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Walter Dean Myers and Ann Grifalconi’s
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison’s
Let Them Play
Toyomi Igus’s
When I Was Little
Graphic Novels
Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton’s
Pitch Black
Greg Neri and Randy DuBurke’s
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke’s
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Poetry & Short
Stories
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s
Jump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Walter Dean Myers’
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christie’s
Yesterday I Had the Blues
Gwendolyn Brooks and Faith Ringgold’s
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Javaka Steptoe’s
In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall:
African Americans Celebrating Fathers
Patricia A. Keeler and Júlio T. Leitão’s
Drumbeat in Our Feet
Greg Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson’s
Chess Rumble
Davida Adedjouma, and Gregory Christie’s
The Palm of My Heart:
Poetry by African American Children
Charles Sullivan’s
Children of Promise:
African-American Literature and Art for Young People
Ashley Bryan’s
Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
Alice Faye Duncan and Susan Keeter’s
Honey Baby Sugar Child
Karen English and Javaka Steptoe’s
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christie’s
Jazz Baby
Cynthia Cotton and Javaka Steptoe’s
Rain Play
Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewis’s
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s
Harlem
Langston Hughes and Romare Bearden’s
The Block
Langston Hughes and Brian Pinkney’s
The Dreamkeeper and Other Poems
Tony Medina and R. Gregory Christie’s
Love to Langston
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s
Jazz
Willie Perdomo and Bryan Collier’s
Visiting Langston
Charles R. Smith’s
Perfect Harmony:
A Musical Journey with the Boys’ Choir of Harlem
Véronique Tadjo’s
Talking Drums:
A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara
Marilyn Nelson and Phillipe Lardy’s
A Wreath for Emmett Till
James Weldon Johnson and Bryan Collier’s
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson’s
Ellington Was Not a Street
Arnold Adoff’s
I Am the Darker Brother:
An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
Sharon Flake’s
You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys
Tupac Shakur’s
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Countee Cullen’s
Caroling Dusk:
An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties
Betsy Franco’s
You Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
Informational
Texts & Visual
Arts
Katie Smith Milway and Eugenie Fernandes’s
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Hill Harper’s
Letters to a Young Brother:
Manifest Your Destiny
Trish Marx and Ellen B. Sensi’s
Steel Drumming at the Apollo:
The Road to Super Top Dog
Tonya Bolden’s
Wake Up Our Souls:
A Celebration of Black American Artists
Tonya Bolden’s
Tell All the Children Our Story:
Memories and Mementoes of Being Young and Black in
America
Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon’s
Many Thousand Gone:
African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack’s
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
Julius Lester and Rod Brown’s
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
Russell Freedman’s
Freedom Walkers:
The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Tom Feelings’s
The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
Jackie Napoleon Wilson’s
Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the
Dawn of Photography to the Civil War
Velma Maia Thomas’s
No Man Can Hinder Me:
The Journey of Slavery to Emancipation Through Song
Kephra Burns and William Miles’s
Black Stars in Orbit: NASA’s African American Astronauts
Michele Wood and Toyomi Igus’s
i see rhythm
Elizabeth Partridge’s
Marching for Freedom:
Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Patricia and Frederick McKissack and James Ransome’s
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color
to His Daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina,
1806-1816
Michael L. Cooper’s
Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I
Michael L. Cooper’s
The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World
War II
Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack’s
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues
Casey King, Linda Barrett Osborne and Joe Brooks’s
Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement
with the People Who Made It Happen
Jacqueline Harris’s
The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II
Kadir Nelson’s
Heart and Soul:
The Story of America and African Americans
Ellen Levine’s
Freedom’s Children:
Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
John Middleton’s
Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students
Ifeoma Onyefulu’s
Ikenna Goes to Nigeria
Gilbert Ahiagble, Louise Meyer, and Nestor Hernandez’s
The Master Weaver from Ghana
Walter Dean Myers’s
Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
Robert Mayer’s
When the Children Marched:
The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
James Haskins’s
The March on Washington
Ann Bausum’s
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front
Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
Chris Crowe’s
Getting Away with Murder:
The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Kadir Nelson’s
We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball
Tonya Bolden and Ansel Pitcairn’s
Portraits of African-American Heroes
Tonya Bolden’s
Strong Men Keep Coming:
The Book of African American Men
Screenplay/
Drama
Caleen Sinette Jennings’s
Free Like Br’er Rabbit
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s
Monster
Middle Grades
Novels
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Frances Temple’s
Grab Hands and Run
Frances Temple’s
A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
Jacqueline Woodson’s
Peace, Locomotion
Monalisa DeGross and Amy June Bates’s
Donavan's Double Trouble
Panise Hart Flood’s
It’s Test Day, Tiger Turcotte
Panise Hart Flood’s
Tiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-All
Sharon Draper’s
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:
The Buried Bones Mystery
Sharon Draper’s
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:
The Buried Bones Mystery
Sharon Draper’s
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:
Lost in the Tunnel of Time
Angela Johnson’s
Maniac Monkey's on Magnolia Street
Angela Johnson’s
Maniac Monkey's on Magnolia Street
Angela Johnson’s
When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street
Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s
Miami Gets it Straight
Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s
Miami Makes the Play
Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s
Miami Sees it Through
Charisse K. Richardson’s
The Real Slam Dunk
Deborah Ellis’s
Jakeman
Novels
Historical Fiction
Virginia Hamilton’s
The House of Dies Drear
Kekla Magoon’s
The Rock and the River
Joyce Hansen’s
Which Way Freedom?
Joyce Hansen’s
Out from This Place
Mildred D. Taylor’s
The Well: David’s Story
Mildred Taylor’s
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Christopher Paul Curtis’s
The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
Christopher Paul Curtis’s
Bud, Not Buddy
Walter Dean Myers’s
Fallen Angels
Meja Mwangi’s
The Mzungu Boy
Sheila P. Moses’s
The Legend of Buddy Bush
Christopher Paul Curtis’s
Elijah of Buxton
Candy Dawson Boyd’s
Chevrolet Saturdays
Chapter Books
Biographies and
Autobiographies
Sharon Robinson’s
Jackie’s Nine
Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt’s
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
Savion Glover and Bruce Weber’s
Savion: My Life in Tap
Tonya Bolden’s
W. E. B. DuBois: A Twentieth-Century Life
Chris Crowe’s
Thurgood Marshall: A Twentieth-Century Life
Myra Ribeiro’s
The Assassination of Medgar Evers
Jan Greenberg and Romare Bearden’s
Paul Robeson
Baba Wagué Diakité’s
A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an African Childhood
Mawi Asgedom’s
Of Beetles and Angels:
A True Story of the American Dream
Tonya Bolden and Bob Adelman’s
M.L.K.: Journey of a King
Larry Dane Brimmer’s
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
Leon Tillage and Susan L. Roth’s
Leon’s Story
Ann Parr and Kathryn Breidenthal’s
Gordon Parks: No Excuses
Manfred Weidhorn’s
Jackie Robinson
Walter Dean Myers’s
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Alice Walker and Catherine Deeter’s
Langston Hughes: American Poet
Bonnie Hinman’s
Benjamin Banneker:
American Mathematician and Astronomer
Virginia Hamilton’s
Anthony Burns:
The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Alex Simmons’s
Ben Carson
Folklore
Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Baba Wagué Diakité’s
The Hatseller and the Monkeys:
A West African Folktale
Jerry Pinkney’s
Aesop’s Fables
Eboni Bynum, Roland Jackson and Baba Wagué Diakité’s
Jamari’s Drum
Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippertt’s
Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia
Isaac O. Olaleye and Ann Grifalconi’s
In the Rainfield: Who Is the Greatest?
Tololwa Mollel and Linda Saport’s
Subira, Subira
Baba Wagué Diakité’s
Mee-An and the Magic Serpent
Concept &
Board Books
Denize Lauture and Reynold Ruffins’s
Running the Road to ABC
Randy DuBurke’s
Little Mister
Dakari Hru’s
Tickle Tickle
Angela Johnson’s
Joshua by the Sea
Angela Johnson’s
Joshua’s Night Whispers
Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelson’s
Please, Baby, Please
Sandra and Myles Pinkneys’s
Shades of Black
Novels in Verse
Julius Lester’s
Days of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
Marilyn Nelson’s
Carver: A Life in Poems
Hope Anita Smith and Shane W. Evans’s
The Way a Door Closes
Jacqueline Woodson’s
Locomotion
Young Adult
Literature
Classic and
Contemporary
Jacqueline Woodson’s
Miracle’s Boys
Derrick Barne’s
We Could Be Brothers
B. A. Binns’s
Pull
Jacqueline Woodson’s
From the Notebooks of the Melanin Sun
Claude Brown’s
Manchild in the Promised Land
August Wilson’s
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Walter Dean Myers’s
The Beast
Chinua Achebe’s
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s
Arrow of God
James Baldwin’s
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin’s
The Fire Next Time
Ralph Ellison’s
Invisible Man
August Wilson’s
Fences
Paul Volponi’s
Black and White
Walter Dean Myers’s
Lockdown
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Julian Houston’s
New Boy
Nikki Grimes’s
Bronx Masquerade
Jacqueline Woodson’s
Behind You
Richard Wright’s
Native Son
Richard Wright’s
Rite of Passage
Walter Mosley’s
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Young Adult Literature
Classic and Contemporary
Informational,
Autobiographies and
Biographies
David Walker’s
David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens
of the World
W. E. B. DuBois’s
The Souls of Black Folk
Frederick Douglass’s
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave
Booker T. Washington’s
Up from Slavery
Richard Wright’s
Black Boy
James Baldwin’s
My Dungeon Shook:
Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary
of Emancipation
Ben Carson’s
Thing Big
Ben Carson’s
The Big Picture:
Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important in Life
Mark Mathabane’s
Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid
Farrah Gray’s
Reallionaire:
Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out
Walter Dean Myers’s
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Alex Haley and Malcolm X’s
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Miles Corwin’s
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve
Gifted Inner-City Students
Alex Kotlowitz’s
There Are No Children Here
Carter G. Woodson’s
The Mis-education of the Negro
Walter Mosley’s
Workin’ on the Chain Gang:
Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Anthony C. Davis and Jeffrey W. Jackson’s
Yo, Little Brother:
Basic Rules of Survival for Young African American Males
James Goodman’s
Stories of Scottsboro
LeAlan Jones, Llyod Newman and David Isay’s
Our America:
Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
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Thanks to Karin Mansberg, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
and Nancy Heilbronner for artistic and technical
help.
Thanks, also, to those who made suggestions:
Damien Holst
Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Ernest Morrell (through his writings)
Mary Ann Reilly
Merle Rumble
Alfred Tatum (through his writings)
Resources
This powerpoint will be made available at:
http://bridgetolit.web.unc.edu/
Also, see my current website:
Resources for Multicultural and International Literature (on my current
website, http://www.wcsu.edu/sps/fbiojgangi.asp)
Forthcoming:
Center for Literacy at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY
Connecticut Reading Association Website
Dedicated to
Laconia Therrio—
storyteller, chaplain,
therapist, friend,
and recipient of the
2012
Barbara Reed
Award
for distinguished and outstanding
service to the Connecticut Storytelling
Center