African Americans -- Juvenile poetry
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African Americans -- Juvenile poetry
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African Americans
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- The negro speaks of rivers, Langston Hughes; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis
- Brown angels, an album of pictures and verse, Walter Dean Myers
- Soul looks back in wonder, [illustrated by] Tom Feelings ; [poems by Maya Angelou and others]
- Honey, I love, and other love poems, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Diane and Leo Dillon
- Words with wings, a treasury of African-American poetry and art, selected by Belinda Rochelle
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by Xia Gordon
- Harlem, a poem, by Walter Dean Myers ; pictures by Christopher Myers
- Lullaby for a Black mother, a poem, by Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Sean Qualls
- Jump back, Honey, the poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrations by Ashley Bryan ... [et al.]
- Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American poetry
- Remember the bridge, poems of a people, Carole Boston Weatherford ; designed by Semadar Megged
- I am loved, poems by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrations by Ashley Bryan
- The dream keeper and other poems, Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- The block, poems, by Langston Hughes ; collage by Romare Bearden ; selected by Lowery S. Sims and Daisy Murray Voigt ; introduction by Bill Cosby
- Ellington was not a street, written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
- Meet Danitra Brown, Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Freedom's a-callin me, poems by Ntozake Shange ; paintings by Rod Brown
- The blacker the berry, poems, by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Thinker, my puppy poet and me
- Gingerbread days, poems by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- 'Twas the night b'fore Christmas, an African-American version, retold and illustrated by Melodye Rosales
- In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies, collected by Alice McGill; pictures by Michael Cummings
- It's raining laughter, poems by Nikki Grimes ; photographs by Myles C. Pinkney
- African American poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount ; illustrated by Karen Barbour
- The genie in the jar, Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Chris Raschka
- Blues journey, by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers
- I, too, sing America, [three centuries of African-American poetry], [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton
- Brown honey in broomwheat tea, poems by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Crowning glory, poems by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Brenda Joysmith
- Twas the night before Christmas
- Lullaby (for a Black mother), Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Sean Qualls
- Ellington was not a street, written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
- Freedom like sunlight, praisesongs for Black Americans, J. Patrick Lewis ; [illustrated by] John Thompson
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African American poetry, [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
- Children of long ago, poems, by Lessie Jones Little ; pictures by Jan Spivey Gilchrist ; introduction by Eloise Greenfield
- My man Blue, poems, by Nikki Grimes ; pictures by Jerome Lagarrigue
- Make a joyful sound, poems for children by African-American poets, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu ; edited by Deborah Slier
- Blues journey, by Walter Dean Myers
- In daddy's arms I am tall, African Americans celebrating fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
- Here in Harlem, poems in many voices, by Walter Dean Myers
- Night on Neighborhood Street, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Spin a soft Black song, poems for children, by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by George Martins
- Angel to angel, a mother's gift of love, Walter Dean Myers
- Honey, I love, and other love poems, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Diane and Leo Dillon
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- How sweet the sound, African-American songs for children, selected by Wade and Cheryl Hudson ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Hopscotch love, a family treasury of love poems, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Honey, I love, Eloise Greenfield ; illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- I am loved, poems, by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrations by Ashley Bryan
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