Juneteenth: Coming Together – Reading Recommendations for Kids
The True Story of the Emancipation Proclamation (What Really Happened?)
Clark, Willow
New York: Power Kids Press, 2013
Full, Full, Full of Love
Cooke, Trish (author)
Howard, Paul (illustrator)
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2003
Juneteenth for Mazie
Cooper, Floyd
North Mankato, MN: Picture Windows Books, 2015
Steamboat School: Inspired by a True Story
Hopkinson, Deborah (author)
Husband, Ron (illustrator)
Los Angeles: Disney Hyperion, 2016
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
Johnson, Angela (author)
Lewis, E.B (illustrator)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014
Lola at the Library (Lola Reads)
McGuinn, Anna (author)
Beardshaw, Rosalind (illustrator)
Watertown, MA, 2006
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Myers, Walter Dean (author)
Cooper, Floyd (illustrator)
New York: Harper, 2017
Juneteenth
Micheaux Nelson, Vaunda and Nelson, Drew (authors)
Shroder, Mark (illustrator)
Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 2006
Freedom’s Gifts: A Juneteenth Story
Wesley, Valerie (author)
Wilson, Sharon (illustrator)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997
The Other Side
Woodson, Jacqueline (author)
Lewis, E.B. (illustrator)
New York: Putnam’s, 2001
Not available in the museum library collection, but highly recommended:
Thank You Omu!
Mora, Oge
New York: Little Brown, 2018
My Nana and Me
Smalls, Irene (author)
Johnson, Cathy Ann (illustrator)
Irvine, CA: Xist Publishing, 2015
I Love My Hair
Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia
New York: Little Brown, 2001
Dream Big, Little One
Harrison, Vashti
