Black History Month for Young Children

A selection of picture books for young children by Black Canadian authors.

Updated January 13, 2024
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The only way to make bread
Quintero, Cristina
Paper Book
WINNER of the Ezra Jack Keats Best New Illustrator Award! A delicious exploration of all kinds of breads, from sourdough to bannock to bao, that will tickle your taste buds and warm your heart. What's the only way to make bread? You might use white flour in...
Snowy mittens : a winter adventure
Grant, Shauntay
Paper Book
The picture bookSnowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure isa celebration of Black joy and the simple pleasures of a day in the snow from award-winning poet and picture book author Shauntay Grant. Follow along as a young boy spends the day sledding and ice...
When I wrap my hair
Grant, Shauntay
Paper Book
In the vein of I Am Enough and Hold Them Close, this inspiring and beautiful picture book celebrates how hair wrapping ties together past and present. When I wrap, my roots run deep. As deep as an African marketplace or a city sidewalk or the...
The stone thrower
Richardson, Jael Ealey
Paper Book
The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. ...

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