Black book characters

16 Picture Books Featuring Black Characters are just a few of the many creators of color writing books that reflect today's kids!

This selection of books with African American girl characters helps to reinforce diversity and inclusion while offering relatable characters to young girls.

I recently received a comment asking for chapter book recommendations for a book club of girls in 2nd-5th grade. The mom said that what she wants most is a book "that has black children in a fun situation, just living life." I responded to her comment but decided to turn it into a post because

Tomorrow marks the return of my favorite program we offer at the library: R.W.D., or Read, Watch, Discuss! I’ve written about my book-to-film club previously, but tomorrow kicks off our special summer session. First up: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline! Oh, how I adore this book. I was always a fan of plucky heroines (and heroes!) and books that made me afraid to fall asleep. Coraline is all of those things and more. I read it as an adult first, but I know I would have loved it as a child, fan as I…

When superheroes first appeared in comic books, many minority groups were heavily underrepresented. These awesome black female comic book characters are ...

Many strange legends are told of these jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of a small boy named Mowgli.Bagheera Mowgli (also known as the Man-Cub) is the protagonist of Disney's 1967 animated feature film The Jungle Book. A young, orphaned boy with an adventurous spirit, Mowgli had been found by a black panther named Bagheera and raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India since infancy. When a murderous tiger becomes determined to kill him, however, Mowgli is forced to…