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Mama Let's Read

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my husband and our three small kids. I’m a biracial Black mom sharing diverse children’s books with positive Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) characters we love. Order some of our favorites here. 

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
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Our Favorite Kids Books w/Black Characters

Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
Tallulah the Tooth Fairy CEO and the Corona Challenge
The Crossover: A Newbery Award Winner
Nubia: Real One
My Baby Loves Valentine's Day
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Nana Akua Goes to School
If I Had an Octopus
If I Had a Unicorn
If I Had a Sleepy Sloth
Grandmother School
Jabari Tries
Brown Boy Joy
Bips and Roses
I Am Perfectly Designed
Baby Medical School: My Doctor's Visit
Baby Medical School: Bacteria and Antibiotics
Baby Medical School: Vaccines
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race
My Baby Loves Valentine's Day
My Baby Loves Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids
Día de los Muertos
Whose Toes Are Those?
Please, Baby, Please
Antiracist Baby Board Book
Girl of Mine
A is for Activist
Whose Knees Are These?
Peekaboo Morning
Dream Big, Little One
Zonia's Rain Forest
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
One Love
We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)
The Girl Who Carried Too Much Stuff
A Piñata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids
The Day You Begin
Día de los Muertos
Gustavo, the Shy Ghost
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez: A Picture Book
Me Llamo Celia/My Name Is Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz/The Life Of Celia Cruz
All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La Historia de Por Qué Tenemos Diferentes Colores de P
Dreamers
Brown Baby Lullaby
With the Fire on High
The Poet X
Clap When You Land
They Call Me Mix/Me Llaman Maestre
Hair Twins
Watercress
I Sang You Down from the Stars
Grandmother School
Wild One
Nana Akua Goes to School
The Buddy Bench
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon
I Dream of Popo
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Oona
My Hair Is Magic!
Hair, It's a Family Affair
Me Llamo Celia/My Name Is Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz/The Life Of Celia Cruz
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Caldecott & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
Hair Twins
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The Ghanaian Goldilocks
The Buddy Bench
March: Book One
March: Book Three
March: Book Two
All Because You Matter (an All Because You Matter Book)
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Off to See the Sea
I Have a Dream [With CD (Audio)]
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
Jabari Jumps
Baby Medical School: My Doctor's Visit
Baby Medical School: Bacteria and Antibiotics
Baby Medical School: Vaccines
Mae Among the Stars
Rocket Says Look Up!
Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
Cece Loves Science
Boxitects
ADA Twist, Scientist: A Picture Book
Libby Loves Science
Grumplets and Pests
Dragons and Marshmallows: Zoey and Sassafras #1
Hair Twins
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race
Nana Akua Goes to School
When Aidan Became a Brother
The Buddy Bench
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
My Hair Is Magic!
Hair, It's a Family Affair
You Matter
Ruby's Chinese New Year
Your Name Is a Song
Ambitious Girl
One Love
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
They, She, He easy as ABC
Uncle Bobby's Wedding
They Call Me Mix/Me Llaman Maestre
When Aidan Became a Brother
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