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Black History Month 2024: Books for Kids

Celebrate Black History Month 2024 with these books for kids about African Americans in the arts and entrepreneurship.

Chicago Public Library

25 items

  • Ablaze With Color

    a Story of Painter Alma Thomas

    Harvey, Jeanne Walker,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — ND237.T5517H37 2022
  • BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] — HC102.5.U46A3 2020
  • Chance the Rapper

    Musician and Activist

    Head, Tom,
    PaperbackNew York : Enslow Publishing, 2020. — ML3930.C442H43 2020
  • Chef Edna

    Queen of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

    Noel, Melvina,
    BookPetaluma, California : Cameron Kids, 2023. — TX649.E36N64 2023
  • Holding Her Own

    the Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes

    Todd, Traci N.,
    BookNew York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2023. — PN6727.O74Z88 2023
  • Just Jerry

    How Drawing Shaped My Life

    Pinkney, Jerry,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — NC975.5.P56A2 2023
  • Book[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2017] — FIC WILLIAMS
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — FIC BLIGE
  • Mo's Bows

    a Young Person's Guide to Start-up Success : Measure, Cut, Stitch Your Way to a Great Business

    Bridges, Moziah,
    PaperbackPhiladelphia : Running Press Kids, 2019. — HF5386.B8345 2019
  • BookLos Angeles : Disney * Hyperion Books, 2015. — FICTION
  • On the Line

    My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette

    Jones, Jennifer,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — GV1785.J5587A3 2023
  • Only the Best

    the Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe

    Messner, Kate,
    BookSan Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2022] — TT505.L69M47 2022
  • Ordinary Days

    the Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson

    Joy, Angela, 1975-
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — ML420.P974J69 2023
  • Pies From Nowhere

    How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Romito, Dee,
    BookNew York, NY : Little Bee Books, [2018] — F334.M79R66 2018
  • Radiant Child

    the Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Steptoe, Javaka, 1971-
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — N6537.B233S84 2016