Recommended Reading

These picture books from 2016 feature diverse families and friends, with love and without comment.

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, we recommend an assortment of picture books about Dr. King and others who fought for civil rights in the 1960s. These different stories depict that heroic era on a wonderfully human scale.

Browse our list of excellent picture books about African-American lives that help us teach our children, during Black History Month and all year round, that American history belongs to all of us.