A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD For the Summit Building a Bridge

A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Childrens and Young Adult Literature Prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD 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 Colliers Martins Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christine Farris and Chris Soentpiets My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Eloise Greenfield and George Fords Paul Robeson

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

Quincy Troupe and Lisa Cohens Little Stevie Wonder

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

Nikki Grimes and Bryan Colliers Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Jane Halfmann and Duane Smiths Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story

Crystal Hubbard and Robert McGuires The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

Elizabeth MacLeods George Washington Carver: An Innovative Life

Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watsons I and I

William Miller and Rodney S. Pates Joe Louis, My Champion

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

Chris Raschkas Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Gaylia Taylor and Frank Morrisons George Crum and the Saratoga Chip

Wendy Towle and Wil Clays The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor

Floyd Coopers Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransomes Satchel Paige

William Miller and R. Gregory Christies Richard Wright and the Library Card

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransomes Young Pel: Soccers First Star

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransomes Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist

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

Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkinss Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

Lynne Baraschs Knockin on Wood Starring Peg Leg Bates

Robert Andrew Parkers Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

Kai Jackson Issa and Arthur L. Dawsons Howard Thurmans Great Hope

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

Crystal Hubbard and Kevin Belfords Game Set Match Champion: Arthur Ashe

Tonya Bolden and R. Gregory Christies The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

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

Floyd Coopers Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman

John Duggleby and Jacob Lawrences Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence

Sharon Bell Mathis and George Fords Ray Charles

Robert Burleigh and Marek Loss Lookin for Bird in the Big City

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

David Wisniewskis Sundiata: Lion King of Mali

Kephra Burns, Leo and Diane Dillons Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali

Marie Bradby and Chris Soenpiets More Than Anything Else

Picture Books Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Jeri Hanel Watts and Felicia Marshalls Keepers

John Steptoe and E. B. Lewiss Creativity

Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewiss Joe-Joes First Flight

Lucille Cliftons Everett Anderson's Goodbye

Edwidge Danticat and Alix Delinoiss Eight Days: A Story of Haiti

Mary Hoffman and Karen Littlewoods The Colour of Home

Fran Lessacs My Little Island

Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewiss Bippity Bob Barbershop

Wade Hudsons Jamals Busy Day

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

Brian Pinkneys Max Found Two Sticks

Chris Raschkas Yo! Yes!

Irene Smalls-Hector and Michael Hayss Jonathan and His Mommy

Javaka Steptoes The Jones Family Express

John Steptoes Stevie

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

Shane Evanss Olus Dream

Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransomes Visiting Day

Youmes Slavi: A Haitian Story of Hope

Nikki Grimes and Mike Bennys Oh, Brother!

Bryan Colliers Uptown

Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgrens Josias, Hold the Book

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and Aaron Boyds Babus Song

Tolowa Mollel and E. B. Lewiss My Rows and Piles of Coins

Cristina Kessler and Leonard Jenkinss Best Beekeeper of Lalibela

Elizabeth Alalou and Julie Klear Essakallis The Butter Man

Clifton L. Taulbert and E. B. Lewiss Little Cliffs First Day of School

Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchells Daddy Calls Me a Man

Wade Hudsons Its Church Going Time

Denize Lautures Father and Son

Jerdine Nolen and Kadir Nelsons Hewitt Andersons Great Big Life

G. Francis Johnson, Gail Johnson, & Dimitrea Tokunbos Has Anybody Lost a Glove?

Picture Books Historical Fiction

Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkneys The Old African

Angela Johnson and Loren Longs I Dream of Trains

Angela Johnsons and Loren Longs Wind Flyers

Andrea Davis Pinkney and J. Brian Pinkneys Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Patricia McKissack and Leo and Diane Dillons Never Forgotten

Deborah Hopkinson and Ral Colns A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers

William Miller and Charlotte Riley Webbs Rent Party Jazz

Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransomes Uncle Jeds Barbershop

Shane W. Evans Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom

Lorenzo Paces 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 Lagarrigues Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Debbie A. Taylor and Frank Morrisons Sweet Music in Harlem

Richard Michelson and E. B. Lewiss Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me

Jacob Lawrences The Great Migration: An American Story

Glenda Armand and Colin Bootmans Love Twelve Miles Long

Gavin Curtis and E. B. Lewiss The Bat Boy and His Violin

Walter Dean Myers and Ann Grifalconis Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam

Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellisons Let Them Play

Toyomi Iguss When I Was Little

Graphic Novels

Youme Landowne and Anthony Hortons Pitch Black

Greg Neri and Randy DuBurkes Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurkes Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

Poetry & Short Stories

Paul Laurence Dunbars Jump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Walter Dean Myers Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices

Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christies Yesterday I Had the Blues

Gwendolyn Brooks and Faith Ringgolds Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Javaka Steptoes In Daddys Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

Patricia A. Keeler and Jlio T. Leitos Drumbeat in Our Feet

Greg Neri and Jesse Joshua Watsons Chess Rumble

Davida Adedjouma, and Gregory Christies The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children

Charles Sullivans Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young People

Ashley Bryans Ashley Bryans ABC of African American Poetry

Alice Faye Duncan and Susan Keeters Honey Baby Sugar Child

Karen English and Javaka Steptoes Hot Day on Abbott Avenue

Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christies Jazz Baby

Cynthia Cotton and Javaka Steptoes Rain Play

Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewiss The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myerss Harlem

Langston Hughes and Romare Beardens The Block

Langston Hughes and Brian Pinkneys The Dreamkeeper and Other Poems

Tony Medina and R. Gregory Christies Love to Langston

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myerss Jazz

Willie Perdomo and Bryan Colliers Visiting Langston

Charles R. Smiths Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem

Vronique Tadjos Talking Drums: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara

Marilyn Nelson and Phillipe Lardys A Wreath for Emmett Till

James Weldon Johnson and Bryan Colliers Lift Every Voice and Sing

Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelsons Ellington Was Not a Street

Arnold Adoffs I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Sharon Flakes You Dont Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys

Tupac Shakurs The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Countee Cullens Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

Betsy Francos You Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

Informational Texts & Visual Arts

Katie Smith Milway and Eugenie Fernandess One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

Hill Harpers Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny

Trish Marx and Ellen B. Sensis Steel Drumming at the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog

Tonya Boldens Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists

Tonya Boldens Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementoes of Being Young and Black in America

Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillons Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissacks Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

Julius Lester and Rod Browns From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

Russell Freedmans Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Tom Feelingss The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo

Jackie Napoleon Wilsons Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War

Velma Maia Thomass No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey of Slavery to Emancipation Through Song

Kephra Burns and William Miless Black Stars in Orbit: NASAs African American Astronauts

Michele Wood and Toyomi Iguss i see rhythm

Elizabeth Partridges Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Dont You Grow Weary

Patricia and Frederick McKissack and James Ransomes Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color to His Daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-1816

Michael L. Coopers Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I

Michael L. Coopers The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World War II

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

Casey King, Linda Barrett Osborne and Joe Brookss Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen

Jacqueline Harriss The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II

Kadir Nelsons Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Ellen Levines Freedoms Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

John Middletons Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students

Ifeoma Onyefulus Ikenna Goes to Nigeria

Gilbert Ahiagble, Louise Meyer, and Nestor Hernandezs The Master Weaver from Ghana

Walter Dean Myerss Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom

Robert Mayers When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

James Haskinss The March on Washington

Ann Bausums Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Chris Crowes Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

Kadir Nelsons We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball

Tonya Bolden and Ansel Pitcairns Portraits of African-American Heroes

Tonya Boldens Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men

Screenplay/ Drama

Caleen Sinette Jenningss Free Like Brer Rabbit

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myerss Monster

Middle Grades Novels Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Frances Temples Grab Hands and Run

Frances Temples A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti

Jacqueline Woodsons Peace, Locomotion

Monalisa DeGross and Amy June Batess Donavan's Double Trouble

Panise Hart Floods Its Test Day, Tiger Turcotte

Panise Hart Floods Tiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-All

Sharon Drapers Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: The Buried Bones Mystery

Sharon Drapers Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: Lost in the Tunnel of Time

Angela Johnsons Maniac Monkey's on Magnolia Street

Angela Johnsons When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street

Patricia and Frederick McKissacks Miami Gets it Straight

Patricia and Frederick McKissacks Miami Makes the Play

Patricia and Frederick McKissacks Miami Sees it Through

Charisse K. Richardsons The Real Slam Dunk

Deborah Elliss Jakeman

Novels Historical Fiction

Virginia Hamiltons The House of Dies Drear

Kekla Magoons The Rock and the River

Joyce Hansens Which Way Freedom?

Joyce Hansens Out from This Place

Mildred D. Taylors The Well: Davids Story

Mildred Taylors Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Christopher Paul Curtiss The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963

Christopher Paul Curtiss Bud, Not Buddy

Walter Dean Myerss Fallen Angels

Meja Mwangis The Mzungu Boy

Sheila P. Mosess The Legend of Buddy Bush

Christopher Paul Curtiss Elijah of Buxton

Candy Dawson Boyds Chevrolet Saturdays

Chapter Books Biographies and Autobiographies

Sharon Robinsons Jackies Nine

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

Savion Glover and Bruce Webers Savion: My Life in Tap

Tonya Boldens W. E. B. DuBois: A Twentieth-Century Life

Chris Crowes Thurgood Marshall: A Twentieth-Century Life

Myra Ribeiros The Assassination of Medgar Evers

Jan Greenberg and Romare Beardens Paul Robeson

Baba Wagu Diakits A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an African Childhood

Mawi Asgedoms Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream

Tonya Bolden and Bob Adelmans M.L.K.: Journey of a King

Larry Dane Brimmers We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

Leon Tillage and Susan L. Roths Leons Story

Ann Parr and Kathryn Breidenthals Gordon Parks: No Excuses

Manfred Weidhorns Jackie Robinson

Walter Dean Myerss Bad Boy: A Memoir

Alice Walker and Catherine Deeters Langston Hughes: American Poet

Bonnie Hinmans Benjamin Banneker: American Mathematician and Astronomer

Virginia Hamiltons Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Alex Simmonss Ben Carson

Folklore

Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkneys The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Baba Wagu Diakits The Hatseller and the Monkeys: A West African Folktale

Jerry Pinkneys Aesops Fables

Eboni Bynum, Roland Jackson and Baba Wagu Diakits Jamaris Drum

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

Isaac O. Olaleye and Ann Grifalconis In the Rainfield: Who Is the Greatest?

Tololwa Mollel and Linda Saports Subira, Subira

Baba Wagu Diakits Mee-An and the Magic Serpent

Concept & Board Books

Denize Lauture and Reynold Ruffinss Running the Road to ABC

Randy DuBurkes Little Mister

Dakari Hrus Tickle Tickle

Angela Johnsons Joshua by the Sea

Angela Johnsons Joshuas Night Whispers

Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelsons Please, Baby, Please

Sandra and Myles Pinkneyss Shades of Black

Novels in Verse

Julius Lesters Days of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

Marilyn Nelsons Carver: A Life in Poems

Hope Anita Smith and Shane W. Evanss The Way a Door Closes

Jacqueline Woodsons Locomotion

Young Adult Literature Classic and Contemporary

Jacqueline Woodsons Miracles Boys

Derrick Barnes We Could Be Brothers

B. A. Binnss Pull

Jacqueline Woodsons From the Notebooks of the Melanin Sun

Claude Browns Manchild in the Promised Land

August Wilsons Joe Turners Come and Gone

Walter Dean Myerss The Beast

Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebes Arrow of God

James Baldwins Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwins The Fire Next Time

Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man

August Wilsons Fences

Paul Volponis Black and White

Walter Dean Myerss Lockdown

Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myerss Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Julian Houstons New Boy

Nikki Grimess Bronx Masquerade

Jacqueline Woodsons Behind You

Richard Wrights Native Son

Richard Wrights Rite of Passage

Walter Mosleys 47

Young Adult Literature Classic and Contemporary Informational, Autobiographies and Biographies

David Walkers David Walkers Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

W. E. B. DuBoiss The Souls of Black Folk

Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Booker T. Washingtons Up from Slavery

Richard Wrights Black Boy

James Baldwins My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation

Ben Carsons Thing Big

Ben Carsons The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on Whats Really Important in Life

Mark Mathabanes Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid

Farrah Grays Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out

Walter Dean Myerss The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

Alex Haley and Malcolm Xs The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Miles Corwins And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students

Alex Kotlowitzs There Are No Children Here

Carter G. Woodsons The Mis-education of the Negro

Walter Mosleys Workin on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

Anthony C. Davis and Jeffrey W. Jacksons Yo, Little Brother: Basic Rules of Survival for Young African American Males

James Goodmans Stories of Scottsboro

LeAlan Jones, Llyod Newman and David Isays Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

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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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A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD For the Summit Building a Bridge