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Recommended books to help promote discussion of race and racism with young children

Alvin Ailey by Andrea Davis and Brian Pinkney

A Poem for Peter by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold

Brick by Brick  by Givliano Ferri

Callaloo: The Trickster and The Magic Quilt by Marjuan Canady

Color of Us  by Karen Katz

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis and Brian Pinkney

Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats

Happy in our Skin by Fran Manushkin

Last Stop on Market Street  by Matt de la Pene

Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers

MC Veggie Fresh Rocks the Mic by Shanon Morris 

Mr. George Baker by Amy Hest

Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson

Poncho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh

Shine: The Podderite Chronicles Book by Thaddeus Coates 

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

The Peace Book  by Todd Parr

This is the Rope:  A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson

Those Shoes   by Maribeth Boelts

Thunder Boy Junior by Sherman Alexie

Whoever You Are by  Mem Fox

Wings by Christopher Myers