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African American Genre
Books in the African American genre:
The Story of the Five Rebellious Dolls (1904)
The five dolls escape from their owner, Eva, to have their own adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
E. Stuart Hardy
The Land of the Spirit (1913)
Author(s):
Thomas Nelson Page
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Ghosts What Ain’t (1923)
A humorous sermon on not letting our fears prevent us from acting. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Harold Cue
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1929)
An anti-slavery novel which had immense popularity prior to the Civil War. The later edition of 1935 has fewer illustrations.
Author(s):
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932)
A story about the underground railroad that brought slaves from the South to Canada.
Author(s):
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
John Henry and the Double-Jointed Steam Drill (1945)
The story of a steel-driving man.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Waiters (1953)
The story of a waiter who struggles to overcome the barriers of race after World War II.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
William Fisher
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
JD (1972)
Four short stories about a young African American boy.
Author(s):
Mari Evans
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Song of the Trees (1975)
Cassie Logan does not want her mother to sell their timber while her father is away working on the railroad during the Great Depression.
Author(s):
Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Mary McLeod Bethune (1977)
The biography of an African-American educator who founded a school and later a college in Daytona Beach, Florida and was an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Author(s):
Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir (1979)
Three generations of women describe their time growing up, from the turn of the twentieth century to the Great Depression.
Author(s):
Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Jahdu (1980)
When his shadow steals his magic dust, Jahdu must try to get it back.
Author(s):
Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Apples on a Stick (1981)
A collection of playground rhymes used by African-American children in Houston, Texas in the 1980’s.
Author(s):
Barbara Michels
Bettye White
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Patchwork Quilt (1985)
Helping her mother and grandmother sew a quilt, Tanya learns about her family history.
Author(s):
Valerie Flournoy
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
More Tales of Uncle Remus (1987)
This is the second book of Uncle Remus tales in a modified dialect by the two collaborators.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Tales of Uncle Remus (1987)
This is the first volume of Uncle Remus stories, retold in a more readable dialect, from these collaborators.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (1987)
Anna explores the garden and plays in the pond with the frogs.
Author(s):
Nancy White Carlstrom
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Green Lion of Zion Street (1988)
A group of children waiting for the school bus in the fog scare themselves with the thought of the lion crouching nearby.
Author(s):
Julia Fields
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Further Tales of Uncle Remus (1990)
The third book of Uncle Remus stories by the collaborators, rewritten in an easier to understand dialect.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
In For Winter, Out for Spring (1991)
A collection of poems celebrating families throughout the year.
Author(s):
Arnold Adoff
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney