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Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books

Shop these adorable and uplifting books that tell imaginative stories and feature protagonists your children will be able to identify with.
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
By Dominique Hobdy · Updated November 4, 2020

We all know and understand the importance of seeing oneself in the imagery we’re exposed to one a daily basis from the very beginning.

As children, we’re sponges that inhale information and believe what we’re told about ourselves. One way to mold the narrative your children subscribe to is with uplifting, inspiring books that feature faces that look like their own as protagonists.

We’ve rounded up beautiful books, some classics and some brand new tales, that highlight our stories, celebrate our imagination and confirm our experiences.

Give the gift of reading this holiday season and shop below!

01
Woke Baby, $6
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, $14
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03
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale, $6
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Dancing in the Wings, $7
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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When God Made You, $7
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, $8
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I Am Enough, $10
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Every Little Thing, $8
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Girl of Mine by Jabari Asim, $4
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Brave by Stacy McAnulty, $16
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Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, $10
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Young Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson, $13
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Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up by Melissa Thomson, $6
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14
Be Boy Buzz by Bell Hooks
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, $13
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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Sulwe, $16
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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Dancing in the Wings, $7
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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In the Nick of Time, $17
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
Make A Way Media
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Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall, $11
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
Amazon
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20
Please, Baby, Please by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee, $8
Your Beautiful Black Babies Will See Themselves In These Adorable Books
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