In this African-American Children's book cataog, I have listed picture books featuring African-American children, books written by or celebrating African-Americans, biography and history, and some Brer Rabbit for good measure.  Some of the illustrations in these selections are incredible.  See also the African-American Juveniles Book Catalog.
 

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Aardema, Verna. WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE'S EARS. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Dial Books, 1975. Caldecott winner. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $7.50  Aardema, Verna. WHO'S IN RABBIT'S HOUSE? . Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Dial Books, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Penciling on first few pages; throughout text, some words are accented with a pencil mark (looks like someone adding stress marks for oral storytelling?).   VG/VG $18.00  Adoff, Arnold. IN FOR WINTER, OUT FOR SPRING. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-.  <SOLD> Angelou, Maya. MY PAINTED HOUSE, MY FRIENDLY CHICKEN AND ME. Illustrated by Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Clarkson N. Potter, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $15.00  Bess, Clayton. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MOON. Illustrated by Rosekrans Hoffman. Houghton And Mifflin, 1983. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription on front loose endpaper.   VG/VG- $8.00  Bowden, Joan Chase. WHY THE TIDES EBB AND FLOW. Illustrated by Marc Brown. Houghton And Mifflin, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG $8.00  Bradby, Marie. MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. Orchard Books, 1995. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG <SOLD> Bryan, Ashley. LION AND THE OSTRICH CHICKS. Illustrated by Ashley Bryan. Atheneum, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $12.00  Bryan, Ashley. LION AND THE OSTRICH CHICKS. Illustrated by Ashley Bryan. Atheneum, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author.   VG+/VG+ $18.00  Busoni, R. . STANLEY'S AFRICA. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Viking, 1944. Hardcover.   VG/VG- <SOLD>  Elliot, Geraldine. THE LONG GRASS WHISPERS. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins. Dufour Editions, 1962. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   G-/G+ <SOLD> Fields, Julia. THE GREEN LION OF ZION STREET. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Margaret K. McElderry, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG $6.00  Fife, Dale. WHO'LL VOTE FOR LINCOLN? . Illustrated by Paul Galdone. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Some water damage to DJ.   VG-/G+ $8.00  French, Fiona. AIO THE RAINMAKER. Oxford University Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautiful.   VG-.  $45.00  Graham, Florenz. EVERY MAN HEART LAY DOWN. Illustrated by Colleen Browning. Boyds Mills Press, 1970. Hardcover.   VG/VG $8.00  Graham, Lorenz. SONG OF THE BOAT. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $15.00  Grifalconi, Ann. KINDA BLUE. Little, Brown, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $25.00  Grifalconi, Ann. FLYAWAY GIRL. Little, Brown, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $15.00  Grimes, Nikki. SOMETHING ON MY MIND. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. Dial Books, 1978. Hardcover. 2nd Printing. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/G+ <SOLD> Haley, Gail E. . A STORY-A STORY. Atheneum, 1970. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Endpapers bubbled.   VG-.  <SOLD> Hamilton, Virginia. THE TIME-AGO TALES OF JAHDU. Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian. MacMillan, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $10.00  Hamilton, Virginia. HER STORIES. African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Blue Sky (Scholastic) , 1995. Hardcover. 1st Printing. New copy of this incredible title.   F/F $19.99  Hamilton, Virginia. THE ALL JAHDU STORYBOOK. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $20.00  Hamilton, Virginia. THE GIRL WHO SPUN GOLD. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Blue Sky (Scholastic) , 2000. Hardcover. New copy of this beautiful retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.   F/F $16.95  Harlow, Alvin F. . JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (UNCLE REMUS) . Plantation Storyteller. Illustrated by W. C. Nims. Julian Messner, Inc. , 1941. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   G/G- $35.00  Harris, Joel Chandler. JUMP! THE ADVENTURES OF BRER RABBIT. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Hardcover. Adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones.   VG+/VG+ $12.00  Harris, Joel Chandler. THE FAVORITE UNCLE REMUS. Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Houghton And Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover. Front dustjacket flap has been clipped.   G+/G- $10.00  Harris, Joel Chandler. JUMP AGAIN! MORE ADVENTURES OF BRER RABBIT. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Hardcover. Adapted by Van Dyke Parks   VG+/VG+ $15.00  Hooks, William H. . THE BALLAD OF BELLE DORCAS. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $8.00  Isadora, Rachel. CITY SEEN FROM A TO Z. Greenwillow Books, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   G+.  $8.00  Krementz, Jill. SWEET PEA. A Black Girl Growing Up in the Rural South. Harcourt Brace & World, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $18.00  Lawrence, Jacob. HARRIET AND THE PROMISED LAND. Simon & Schuster, 1993. Hardcover. New.   F/F $18.00  Leigh, Nila K. LEARNING TO SWIM IN SWAZILAND. A Child's-Eye View of a Southern African Country. Scholastic, 1993. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- <SOLD> Lester, Julius. SAM AND THE TIGERS. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New copy.   F/F $15.99  Lester, Julius. JOHN HENRY. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $20.00  Lester, Julius. JOHN HENRY. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New.   VG+/VG+ $16.00  Linde, Freda. TOTO AND THE AARDVARK. Illustrated by Paul Giavanopoulos. Doubleday & Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG $18.00  Lyons, Mary E. . MASTER OF MAHOGANY. Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. African American Artists and Artisans.   VG+.  $10.00  Lyons, Mary E. . STARTING HOME. The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. African American Artists and Artisans.   VG+.  $8.00  McCurdy, Michael (editor) . ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY. The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG $8.00  Myers, Walter Dean. AMISTAD, A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM. Dutton, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- <SOLD> Pinkney, Andrea Davis. ALVIN AILEY. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. Hyperion, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG+/VG+ $8.00  Pinkney, Andrea Davis. DUKE ELLINGTON. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. Hyperion, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG+/VG+ $9.00  Quail, Edna. KATTAU THE HUNTER. Illustrated by Townley Johnson. Oxford University Press, 1983. Hardcover.   VG-.  $12.00  Ringgold, Faith. AUNT HARRIET'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN THE SKY. Crown Publishers, 1992. Hardcover.   VG+.  $17.99  Rockwell, Anne. ONLY PASSING THROUGH. The Story of Sojourner Truth. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Hardcover. New copy of this very cool title.   F/F $16.95  San Souci, Robert D. THE TALKING EGGS. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books, 1989. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- $8.00  San Souci, Robert D. THE TALKING EGGS. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-.  $12.00  Sanfield, Steve. A NATURAL MAN. The True Story of John Henry. Illustrated by Peter J. Thornton. David R. Godine, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG/VG $8.00  Schroeder, Alan. CAROLINA SHOUT! Illustrated by Bernie Fuchs. Dial Books, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG/VG <SOLD> Seed, Jenny. KULUNI THE BRAVE. Illustrated by Trevor Stubley. World Publishing, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hardcover.   VG/VG $9.50  Seeger, Pete. ABIYOYO. Based on a South African Lullaby and Folk Story. Illustrated by Michael Hays. MacMillan, 1986. Hardcover. Sticker removal spot on front cover.   VG+.  $7.00  Serwadda, W. Moses. SONGS AND STORIES FROM UGANDA. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- <SOLD>  Steptoe, John. BIRTHDAY. Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG-.  $12.00  Steptoe, John. MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS. An African Tale. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's penciled notes on first few pages.   VG/VG+ <SOLD> Stewart, Dianne. THE DOVE. Illustrated by Jude Daly. Greenwillow Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover.   VG+/VG+ $8.00  White, Anne Terry. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. The Story of a Great American. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. Random House, 1953. Hardcover. 2nd Printing. Previous owner's stamps on front free endpaper and on title page.   VG.  $8.00  Wolkstein, Diane. BOUKI DANCES THE KOKIOKO. A Comical Tale from Haiti. Illustrated by Jesse Sweetwater. Gulliver, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New copy.   F/F $7.50  Yarbrough, Camille. CORNROWS. Illustrated by Carole Byard. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings.   VG-/VG- <SOLD> Yates, Janelle. ZORA NEALE HURSTON. A Storyteller's Life. Ward Hill Press, 1993. Hardcover.   VG+.  $7.50  Youpala. YOUPALA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. Illustrated by Zau. Kingfisher, 1995. 1st American Edition. Hardcover.   VG.  $8.80