African Americans -- Juvenile poetry
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- Pride and promise, the Harlem renaissance, edited by Kathryn Cryan Hicks
- Hopscotch love, a family treasury of love poems, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales
- Honey, I love, by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrations by Jan Spevey Gilchrist
- Angel to angel, a mother's gift of love, Walter Dean Myers
- The creation, James Weldon Johnson ; illustrated by James E. Ransome
- Children of long ago, poems, by Lessie Jones Little ; pictures by Jan Spivey Gilchrist ; introduction by Eloise Greenfield
- It's raining laughter, poems by Nikki Grimes ; photographs by Myles C. Pinkney
- Poemhood, our black revival, history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin
- When Gorilla goes walking, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Shane Evans
- The sweet and sour animal book, Langston Hughes ; illustrations by students from the Harlem School of the Arts ; introduction by bEN Vereen ; afterword by George P. Cunningham
- New year be coming!, a Gullah year, written by Katharine Boling ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
- I am loved, poems by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrations by Ashley Bryan
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- The palm of my heart, poetry by African American children, edited by Davida Adedjouma ; illustrated by Gregory Christie ; introduction by Lucille Clifton
- Make a joyful sound, poems for children by African-American poets, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu
- Honey, I love, and other love poems, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Diane and Leo Dillon
- Life doesn't frighten me, poem, by Maya Angelou ; paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ; edited by Sara Jane Boyers
- The creation, a poem, by James Weldon Johnson;pictures by Carla Golembe
- Brown honey in broomwheat tea, poems, by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- An earth song, by Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Tequitia Andrews
- Everett Anderson's Christmas coming, Illustrated, by Evaline Ness
- Carol of the brown king, nativity poems, by Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan
- Thanks a million, poems by Nikki Grimes ; pictures by Cozbi A. Cabrera
- Words with wings, a treasury of African-American poetry and art, selected by Belinda Rochelle
- Soul looks back in wonder, [illustrated by] Tom Feelings ; [poems by Maya Angelou and others]
- Ashley Bryan's ABC of African-American poetry
- The lost zoo, by Christopher Cat and Countee Cullen ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- Gingerbread days, poems by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- The tiger who wore white gloves, or, What you are you are, by Gwendolyn Brooks ; illustrated by Timothy Jones
- The entrance place of wonders, poems of the Harlem Renaissance, selected by Daphne Muse ; illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb
- My Black me, a beginning book of Black poetry
- Come Sunday, written by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Michael Bryant
- Looking like me, by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers
- Free at last, a Juneteenth poem, written by Sojourner Kincaid Rolle ; illustrated by Alex Bostic
- Isn't my name magical?, sister and brother poems, by James Berry ; illustrated by Shelly Hehenberger
- Take it to the hoop, Magic Johnson, Quincy Troupe ; illustrated by Shane Evans
- Crowning glory, poems, by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Brenda Joysmith
- When Daddy prays, written by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Tim Ladwig
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African American poetry, [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
- Legacy, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, by Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Cozbi A. Cabrera [and 16 others]
- Blues journey, Walter Dean Myers
- Night on Neighborhood Street, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Wonders, the best children's poems of Effie Lee Newsome, with illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones ; compiled by Rudine Simes Bishop
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African-American poetry, [selected by] Catherine Clinton
- Blues journey, by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers
- Pass it on, African-American poetry for children, selected by Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Don't you turn back, poems, Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi
- Brown angels, an album of pictures and verse, Walter Dean Myers
- In the hollow of your hand, slave lullabies, collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings
- Love to Langston, by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie