A Virtual Picture Book Library Honoring Black Lives

The slideshow includes links to 90 copyright-compliant read aloud videos + some additional recommended picture book titles (with links to book trailers or author/illustrator video resources if I could find them) that did not have videos.

These are four sections:
Black Joy & Magic
Empowering Stories
Racial & Community Awareness
Black People Impacting the World

Curation focused primarily on books from Black authors and/or illustrators.

Because #BlackLivesMatter on our bookshelves
& behind the pages also.

Please remember: We support Black creators when we abide by copyright & buy (or request our libraries buy) their books!

Here’s the link to the Virtual Library (bit.ly/HBLVPBL) if you want to save a shortcut in your Google Drive. If you want to share with students, but your district Google enterprise settings block it, try this published to the web version for sharing.

A few other posts I’ve shared in recent years with more thoughts & recommendations around this topic:
*#ClassroomBookADay Recommendations: Black Joy & Excellence (February 2022)
*100 Picture Books Including Black People and Communities & Why You Need Them (May/June 2020)
*Is it offensive to say Black? Conversations We Can’t Avoid in the Classroom (February 2018)