Talking to your kids about racism can be very tough. Stories can be powerful tools for exploring the complex realities of race. Hopefully, our list of suggested books, ebooks, and audiobooks can help start conversations that will lead to a more just future.





Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores De Nuestra Piel by Katie Kissinger
Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
My People by Langston Hughes
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh





The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Questions and Feelings About Racism by Anita Ganeri
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera





The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey
We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim
When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson






Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole B. Weatherford
Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton
White Water by Michael S. Bandy
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue
Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins





