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  In Celebration of African-American Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books
Selected by Harford County Public Librarians
PICTURE BOOKS
E C Night at the Fair by Donald Crews
E C Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings
E D Granddaddy's Street Songs by Monalisa DeGross, illus. by Floyd Cooper
E F The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy, illus. by Jerry Pinkney
E H Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolan Harold
E L Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester, illus. by Jerry Pinkney
E M My Rows and piles of Coins by Tololwa Mollel, illus. by E.B Lewis
E R Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
E T I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas, illus. by Floyd Cooper

JUVENILE FICTION
J C Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
J C The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
J F Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
J P Solo Girl by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J R Forty Acres and Maybe a Mulesby Harriette Gillem Robinete
J T The Well: David's Story by Mildred Taylor

YOUTH FICTION
Y H Cousins by Virginia Hamilton
Y H I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Slave Girl by Joyce Hansen
Y J Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Y M Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Y T Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Y W Blue Tights by Rita Williams-Garcia
Y W If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

NON-FICTION
J 398.2082 H Her Stories: African American Folktales by Virginia Hamilton, illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon
J 398.20966 D The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Baba Wague Diakite
J 398.20967 B Ashley Bryan's African Tales, uh-huh by Ashley Bryan
J 639.28 M Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia McKissack
J 811.54 M Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Christopher Myers
J 811.54 G Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes, illus. by Floyd Cooper
J 811.008 I In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers illus. by Javaka Steptoe
J 973.7415 H Black, Blue, and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War by James Haskins
JB Bonetta M At Her Majesty's Request: an African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers



Writers and Artists whose work is represented in Harford County Public Library

James Berry Sharon G. Flake Julius Lester Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
Tonya Bolden Valerie Flournoy E.B. Lewis Belinda Rochelle
Arna Bontemps Jan Spivey Gilchrist Sharon Bell Mathis Melodye Rosales
Ashley Bryan Nikki Giovannichrist Frederick McKissack, Jr. Synthia Saint James
Michael Bryant Eloise Greenfield Patricia McKissack Fatima Shaik
Carole Byard Nikki Grimes Angela Shelf Medearis Irene Smalls-Hector
Alice Childress Rosa Guy Tololwa Mollel Martha Southgate
Debbi Chocolate Virginia Hamilton Christopher Myers Javaka Steptoe
Lucille Clifton Cheryl Hanna Walter Dean Myers John Steptoe
Floyd Cooper Joyce Hansen Ifeoma Onyefulu Michael Strickland
Donald Crews Jerdine Nolan Harold Denise Lewis Patrick Eleanora Tate
Pat Cummings James Haskins Lillie Patterson Mildred Taylor
Christopher Paul Curtis Cheryl Willis Hudson Andrea Davis Pinkney Joyce Carol Thomas
Monalisa DeGross Wade Hudson Brian Pinkney Mildred Pitts Walter
Baba Wague Diakite Langston Hughes Gloria Jean Pinkney Rita Williams-Garcia
Leo Dillon Joanne Hyppolite Jerry Pinkney Richard Jesse Watson
Sharon Draper Angela Johnson James E. Ransome Jacqueline Woodson
Alice Faye Duncan Dolores Johnson Faith Ringold Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Tom Feelings Jacob Lawrence Harriette Gillem Robinet Camille Yarbrough
Carol Fenner