A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in

Children’s and Young Adult Literature

prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD

(email: janegangi@snet.net)

for the Summit

Building a Bridge to Literacy for African American Male Youth

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

June 3-5, 2012

Picture Books

Biographies

Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier’s Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christine Farris and Chris Soentpiet’s

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, and Benny Andrews’s John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Eloise Greenfield and George Ford’s Paul Robeson

Roslyn Jordan, Deloris Jordan, and Kadir Nelson’s Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream

Quincy Troupe and Lisa Cohen’s Little Stevie Wonder

Charles R. Smith and Bryan Collier’s Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Nikki Grimes and Bryan Collier’s Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Jane Halfmann and Duane Smith’s Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story

Crystal Hubbard and Robert McGuire’s The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

Elizabeth MacLeod’s George Washington Carver: An Innovative Life

Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson’s I and I

William Miller and Rodney S. Pate’s Joe Louis, My Champion

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

Chris Raschka’s Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Gaylia Taylor and Frank Morrison’s George Crum and the Saratoga Chip

Wendy Towle and Wil Clay’s The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor

Floyd Cooper’s Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s Satchel Paige

William Miller and R. Gregory Christie’s Richard Wright and the Library Card

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s Young Pelé: Soccer’s First Star

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and A. G. Ford’s What Color Is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors

Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins’s Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

Lynne Barasch’s Knockin’ on Wood Starring Peg Leg Bates

Robert Andrew Parker’s Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

Kai Jackson Issa and Arthur L. Dawson’s Howard Thurman’s Great Hope

Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie’s It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

Crystal Hubbard and Kevin Belford’s Game Set Match Champion: Arthur Ashe

Tonya Bolden and R. Gregory Christie’s The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Yona Zeldis McDonough and Malcah Zeldis’s Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela

Floyd Cooper’s Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman

John Duggleby and Jacob Lawrence’s Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence

Sharon Bell Mathis and George Ford’s Ray Charles

Robert Burleigh and Marek Los’s Lookin’ for Bird in the Big City

Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls’s Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

David Wisniewski’s Sundiata: Lion King of Mali

Kephra Burns, Leo and Diane Dillon’s Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali

Marie Bradby and Chris Soenpiet’s More Than Anything Else

Picture Books

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Jeri Hanel Watts and Felicia Marshall’s Keepers

John Steptoe and E. B. Lewis’s Creativity

Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’s Joe-Joe’s First Flight

Lucille Clifton and Ann Grifalconi’s Everett Anderson's Goodbye

Edwidge Danticat and Alix Delinois’s Eight Days: A Story of Haiti

Melrose Cooper and Nneka Bennett’s Getting’ Through Thursday

Mary Hoffman and Karen Littlewood’s The Colour of Home

Frané Lessac’s My Little Island

Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’s Bippity Bob Barbershop

Wade Hudson and George Ford’s Jamal’s Busy Day

Brian Jordan, Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu’s I Told You I Can Play!

Brian Pinkney’s Max Found Two Sticks

Chris Raschka’s Yo! Yes!

Irene Smalls-Hector and Michael Hays’s Jonathan and His Mommy

Javaka Steptoe’s The Jones Family Express

John Steptoe’s Stevie

Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie’s Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

Shane Evans’s Olu’s Dream

Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransome’s Visiting Day

Youme’s Sélavi: A Haitian Story of Hope

Nikki Grimes and Mike Benny’s Oh, Brother!

Bryan Collier’s Uptown

Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren and Nicole Tadgell’s Josias, Hold the Book

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and Aaron Boyd’s Babu’s Song

Tolowa Mollel and E. B. Lewis’s My Rows and Piles of Coins

Cristina Kessler and Leonard Jenkins’s Best Beekeeper of Lalibela

Elizabeth Alalou and Julie Klear Essakalli’s The Butter Man

Clifton L. Taulbert and E. B. Lewis’s Little Cliff’s First Day of School

Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s Daddy Calls Me a Man

Wade Hudson and Peter Ambush’s It’s Church Going Time

Denize Lauture and Jonathan Green’s Father and Son

Jerdine Nolen and Kadir Nelson’s Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life

G. Francis Johnson, Gail Johnson, & Dimitrea Tokunbo’s Has Anybody Lost a Glove?

Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s The Old African

Angela Johnson and Loren Long’s I Dream of Trains

Angela Johnson’s and Loren Long’s Wind Flyers

Andrea Davis Pinkney and J. Brian Pinkney’s Sit-In:

How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Patricia McKissack and Leo and Diane Dillon’s Never Forgotten

Deborah Hopkinson and Raúl Colón’s A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers

William Miller and Charlotte Riley Webb’s Rent Party Jazz

Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransome’s Uncle Jed’s Barbershop

Shane W. Evan’s Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom

Lorenzo Pace’s Jalani and the Lock

Tim Tingle and Jeanne Rorex Bridges’ s Crossing Bok Chitto:

A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom

Carol Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue’s Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Debbie A. Taylor and Frank Morrison’s Sweet Music in Harlem

Richard Michelson and E. B. Lewis’s Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me

Jacob Lawrence’s The Great Migration: An American Story

Glenda Armand and Colin Bootman’s Love Twelve Miles Long

Gavin Curtis and E. B. Lewis’s The Bat Boy and His Violin

Walter Dean Myers and Ann Grifalconi’s Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam

Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison’s Let Them Play

Toyomi Igus and Higgins Bond’s When I Was Little

Graphic Novels

Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton’s Pitch Black

Greg Neri and Randy DuBurke’s Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke’s Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

Poetry & Short Stories

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Jump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Walter Dean Myers’s Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices

Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christie’s Yesterday I Had the Blues

Gwendolyn Brooks and Faith Ringgold’s Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Javaka Steptoe’s In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall:

African Americans Celebrating Fathers

Patricia A. Keeler and Júlio T. Leitão’s Drumbeat in Our Feet

Greg Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson’s Chess Rumble

Davida Adedjouma, and Gregory Christie’s The Palm of My Heart:

Poetry by African American Children

Charles Sullivan’s Children of Promise:

African-American Literature and Art for Young People

Ashley Bryan’s Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry

Alice Faye Duncan and Susan Keeter’s Honey Baby Sugar Child

Karen English and Javaka Steptoe’s Hot Day on Abbott Avenue

Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christie’s Jazz Baby

Cynthia Cotton and Javaka Steptoe’s Rain Play

Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewis’s The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Harlem

Langston Hughes and Romare Bearden’s The Block

Langston Hughes and Brian Pinkney’s The Dreamkeeper and Other Poems

Tony Medina and R. Gregory Christie’s Love to Langston

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Jazz

Willie Perdomo and Bryan Collier’s Visiting Langston

Charles R. Smith’s Perfect Harmony:

A Musical Journey with the Boys’ Choir of Harlem

Véronique Tadjo’s Talking Drums:

A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara

Marilyn Nelson and Phillipe Lardy’s A Wreath for Emmett Till

James Weldon Johnson and Bryan Collier’s Lift Every Voice and Sing

Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson’s Ellington Was Not a Street

Arnold Adoff’s I Am the Darker Brother:

An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Sharon Flake’s You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys

Tupac Shakur’s The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk:

An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

Betsy Franco’s You Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

Informational Texts &

Visual Arts

Katie Smith Milway and Eugenie Fernandes’s One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

Hill Harper’s Letters to a Young Brother:

Manifest Your Destiny

Trish Marx and Ellen B. Sensi’s Steel Drumming at the Apollo:

The Road to Super Top Dog

Tonya Bolden’s Wake Up Our Souls:

A Celebration of Black American Artists

Tonya Bolden’s Tell All the Children Our Story:

Memories and Mementoes of Being Young and Black in America

Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon’s Many Thousand Gone:

African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack’s Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

Julius Lester and Rod Brown’s From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

Russell Freedman’s Freedom Walkers:

The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo

Jackie Napoleon Wilson’s Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the

Dawn of Photography to the Civil War

Velma Maia Thomas’s No Man Can Hinder Me:

The Journey of Slavery to Emancipation Through Song

Kephra Burns and William Miles’s Black Stars in Orbit: NASA’s African American Astronauts

Michele Wood and Toyomi Igus’s i see rhythm

Elizabeth Partridge’s Marching for Freedom:

Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary

Patricia and Frederick McKissack and James Ransome’s Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color to His Daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina,

1806-1816

Michael L. Cooper’s Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I

Michael L. Cooper’s The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World

War II

Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack’s Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Casey King, Linda Barrett Osborne and Joe Brooks’s Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement

with the People Who Made It Happen

Jacqueline Harris’s The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II

Kadir Nelson’s Heart and Soul:

The Story of America and African Americans

Ellen Levine’s Freedom’s Children:

Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

John Middleton’s Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students

Ifeoma Onyefulu’s Ikenna Goes to Nigeria

Gilbert Ahiagble, Louise Meyer, and Nestor Hernandez’s The Master Weaver from Ghana

Walter Dean Myers’s Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom

Robert Mayer’s When the Children Marched:

The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

James Haskins’s The March on Washington

Ann Bausum’s Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front

Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Chris Crowe’s Getting Away with Murder:

The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball

Tonya Bolden and Ansel Pitcairn’s Portraits of African-American Heroes

Tonya Bolden’s Strong Men Keep Coming:

The Book of African American Men

Screenplay/

Drama

Caleen Sinette Jennings’s Free Like Br’er Rabbit

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Monster

Middle Grades Novels

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Frances Temple’s Grab Hands and Run

Frances Temple’s A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti

Jacqueline Woodson’s Peace, Locomotion

Monalisa DeGross and Amy June Bates’s Donavan's Double Trouble

Panise Hart Flood’s It’s Test Day, Tiger Turcotte

Panise Hart Flood’s Tiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-All

Sharon Draper’s Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:

The Buried Bones Mystery

Sharon Draper’s Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:

The Buried Bones Mystery

Sharon Draper’s Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs:

Lost in the Tunnel of Time

Angela Johnson’s Maniac Monkey's on Magnolia Street

Angela Johnson’s Maniac Monkey's on Magnolia Street

Angela Johnson’s When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street

Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s Miami Gets It Straight

Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s Miami Makes the Play

Patricia and Frederick McKissack’s Miami Sees it Through

Charisse K. Richardson’s The Real Slam Dunk

Deborah Ellis’s Jakeman

Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels

Historical Fiction

Virginia Hamilton’s The House of Dies Drear

Kekla Magoon’s The Rock and the River

Joyce Hansen’s Which Way Freedom?

Joyce Hansen’s Out from This Place

Mildred D. Taylor’s The Well: David’s Story

Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963

Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bud, Not Buddy

Walter Dean Myers’s Fallen Angels

Meja Mwangi’s The Mzungu Boy

Sheila P. Moses’s The Legend of Buddy Bush

Christopher Paul Curtis’s Elijah of Buxton

Candy Dawson Boyd’s Chevrolet Saturdays

Chapter Books Biographies and Autobiographies

Sharon Robinson’s Jackie’s Nine

Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt’s We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success

Savion Glover and Bruce Weber’s Savion: My Life in Tap

Tonya Bolden’s W. E. B. DuBois: A Twentieth-Century Life

Chris Crowe’s Thurgood Marshall: A Twentieth-Century Life

Myra Ribeiro’s The Assassination of Medgar Evers

Jan Greenberg and Romare Bearden’s Paul Robeson

Baba Wagué Diakité’s A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an African Childhood

Mawi Asgedom’s Of Beetles and Angels:

A True Story of the American Dream

Tonya Bolden and Bob Adelman’s M.L.K.: Journey of a King

Larry Dane Brimmer’s We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

Leon Tillage and Susan L. Roth’s Leon’s Story

Ann Parr and Kathryn Breidenthal’s Gordon Parks: No Excuses

Manfred Weidhorn’s Jackie Robinson

Walter Dean Myers’s Bad Boy: A Memoir

Alice Walker and Catherine Deeter’s Langston Hughes: American Poet

Bonnie Hinman’s Benjamin Banneker:

American Mathematician and Astronomer

Virginia Hamilton’s Anthony Burns:

The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Alex Simmons’s Ben Carson

Folklore

Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Baba Wagué Diakité’s The Hatseller and the Monkeys:

A West African Folktale

Jerry Pinkney’s Aesop’s Fables

Eboni Bynum, Roland Jackson and Baba Wagué Diakité’s Jamari’s Drum

Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert’s Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia

Isaac O. Olaleye and Ann Grifalconi’s In the Rainfield: Who Is the Greatest?

Tololwa Mollel and Linda Saport’s Subira, Subira

Baba Wagué Diakité’s Mee-An and the Magic Serpent

Concept &

Board Books

Denize Lauture and Reynold Ruffins’s Running the Road to ABC

Randy DuBurke’s Little Mister

Dakari Hru’s Tickle Tickle

Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s Joshua by the Sea

Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s Joshua’s Night Whispers

Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelson’s Please, Baby, Please

Sandra and Myles Pinkney’s Shades of Black

Novels in Verse

Julius Lester’s Days of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

Marilyn Nelson’s Carver: A Life in Poems

Hope Anita Smith and Shane W. Evans’s The Way a Door Closes

Jacqueline Woodson’s Locomotion

Young Adult Literature

Classic and Contemporary

Jacqueline Woodson’s Miracle’s Boys

Derrick Barne’s We Could Be Brothers

B. A. Binns’s Pull

Jacqueline Woodson’s From the Notebooks of the Melanin Sun

Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land

August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Walter Dean Myers’s The Beast

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God

James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

August Wilson’s Fences

Paul Volponi’s Black and White

Walter Dean Myers’s Lockdown

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Julian Houston’s New Boy

Nikki Grimes’s Bronx Masquerade

Jacqueline Woodson’s Behind You

Richard Wright’s Native Son

Richard Wright’s Rite of Passage

Walter Mosley’s 47

Young Adult Literature

Classic and Contemporary Informational Texts, Autobiographies and

Biographies

David Walker’s David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens

of the World

W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk

Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American

Slave

Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery

Richard Wright’s Black Boy

James Baldwin’s My Dungeon Shook:

Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation

Ben Carson’s Think Big

Ben Carson’s The Big Picture:

Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important in Life

Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

Farrah Gray’s Reallionaire:

Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out

Walter Dean Myers’s The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

Alex Haley and Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Miles Corwin’s And Still We Rise:

The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here

Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-education of the Negro

Walter Mosley’s Working on the Chain Gang:

Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

Anthony C. Davis and Jeffrey W. Jackson’s Yo, Little Brother:

Basic Rules of Survival for Young African American Males

James Goodman’s Stories of Scottsboro

LeAlan Jones, Llyod Newman and David Isay’s Our America:

Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

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Woodson, Jacqueline. (2003). Locomotion. New York, NY: Putnam’s. Woodson, Jacqueline. (2000). Miracle’s boys. New York, NY: Putnam’s. Woodson, Jacqueline. (1995). From the notebooks of the Melanin Sun. New York, NY: Putnam’s. Woodson, Jacqueline, & James E. Ransome (Illus.). (2002). Visiting day. New York, NY: Scholastic. Wright, Richard. (1998). Black boy. New York, NY: Perennial Classics. (Original work published in 1945) Wright, Richard. (1998). Native son. New York, NY: Perennial Classics. (Original work published in 1940) Wright, Richard. (1994). Rite of passage. New York, NY: HarperTrophy. Youme. (2004). Sélavi: A Haitian story of hope. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos.

Thanks to Karin Mansberg, Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Nancy Heilbronner for artistic and technical help. Thanks, also, to those who made suggestions:

Damien Holst Sandra Hughes-Hassell Ernest Morrell (through his writings) Mary Ann Reilly Merle Rumble Alfred Tatum (through his writings)

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