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

I am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown

Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael S. Bandy

Follow Chester! by Gloria Respress-Churchwell

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham

Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass

Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montogomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito