Black History Month for Kids

A selection of novels by Black Canadian authors and non-fiction books featuring Black Canadians in history.

Updated January 6, 2024
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Africville.
Grant, Shauntay
Paper Book
Winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration Finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books Finalist for a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Books...
Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians : inspiring stories of courage and achievement
Ruck, Lindsay
Paper Book
This fascinating, full-colour illustrated book features over 50 amazing Black people from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, sharing their incredible stories and accomplishments, past and present. Among these amazing Black Atlantic Canadians...
Beatrice and Croc Harry : a novel
Hill, Lawrence
Paper Book
"A book to treasure and share across generations." --David Chariandy, author of Brother Beatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest  How did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal...
Hockey night in Kenya
Mutinda, Danson
Paper Book
Key Selling Points Kitoo dreams of someday playing real ice hockey and Nigosi helps him realize that sometimes dreams can come true. Hockey Night in Kenya is ultimately a story about friendship, support and having big dreams. This book addresses abandonment, parental death...
The journey of little Charlie
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Paper Book
Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and Cap'n Buck -- the most fearsome...
Meet Viola Desmond
MacLeod, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer! On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for her right to be in the "unofficial" whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre . . . and was arrested for it. Supported...
The possible lives of WH, sailor
Junaid, Bushra
Paper Book
"What truths would you utter from your mouth If you could tell us your story"-- The Possible Lives of W.H., Sailor In this powerful and deeply moving poetic narrative, author/artist Bushra Junaid gives presence to W.H., a mysterious nineteenth-century sailor whose remains were...
Viola Desmond won't be budged. [online electronic book]
Warner, Jody, 1969-
Ebook
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Paper Book
Welcome to the cypher
Dill, Khodi
Paper Book
Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!"  Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant...
Underground to Canada.
Smucker, Barbara Claassen, 1915-2003
Paper Book
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her...
Swim team. [graphic novel]
Christmas, Johnnie
Paper Book
"Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!" JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal-winning New Kid A splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics creator Johnnie Christmas! Bree can't wait for...
Akim Aliu: Dreamer (Original Graphic Memoir)
Paper Book
This honest, engrossing graphic memoir tells the story of professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu's incredible life as a hockey prodigy in Canada. Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Nigerian born, Ukrainian Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around...

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