Celebrate Black History All Year Long
In celebration of World Reading Day, we wanted to share with you some great read-aloud books that you can read with your kiddos and celebrate the power and joy of reading. What a better way to celebrate than to read about BLACK HISTORY!
In the month of February, we celebrate the astounding and powerful accomplishments of our Black Communities in the United States. We acknowledge that through their adversity, their countless obstacles, and sacrifices, they play a vital role in our American History. This is American History and should be represented as such. Music, Dance, Science, Technology, Art, Literature, Cooking, Culture, and every single facet of who we are as a nation can be attributed to a powerful Black person.
We hope you enjoy these book titles as much as we do.
Happy Reading!
Book Titles:
- Granddaddy's Gift by Margaree Mitchell (Grades 2-4)
- The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko (Grades PreK-3)
- Freedom in Congo Square by R. Gregory Christie Forth (Grades PreK-3)
- The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard (Grades Prek-2)
- Under the Same Sun by Sharon Robinson (Grades PreK-3)
- Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker (Grades 1-3)
- Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson (Grades 1-4)
- If You Were a Kid During the Civil Rights Movement by Gwendolyn Hooks (Grades 2-4)
- This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt (Grades K-2)
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (Grades 1-3)
- Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Grades PreK-2)
- When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill (Grades 3-5)
- Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriet Gillem Robinet and Wendell Minor (Grades 5-7)
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges and Margo Lundell (Grades 5-7)
- Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Grades 5-9)
- All The Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers (Grades 6-9)
- The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake (Grades 7-9)
- The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz (Grades 9-12)
