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Each year during the month of February, hundreds of schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and professional organizations, and interested citizens come together to make literacy a significant part of Black History Month by hosting .
Whether your Read-In is a group of friends getting together for a book club or a public reading in your local town hall, one of the most difficult parts of planning is deciding what books to share during the event. This list of and Award鈥搘inning titles with African American authors or illustrators can be a great jumping off point.
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Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Simon & Schuster)
2019 Orbis Pictus Award Winner
Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
2019 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
2019 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown and Company)
2019 Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael L贸pez (Nancy Paulsen Books)
2019 Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book
Derrick D Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James (Agate Bolden Publishing)
2018 Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book
Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
2017 Charlotte Huck Award Winner
Tonya Bolden (Viking Books for Young Readers)
2017 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
2016 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
2016 Charlotte Huck Award Winner
Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2015 Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book
Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
2015 Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book
Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
2014 Orbis Pictus Recommended Book
Kadir Nelson (Balzer + Bray Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers)
2012 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Kadir Nelson (Hyperion Books for Children)
2009 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
2009 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for children)
2008 Orbis Pictus Award Winner
Ruby Bridges, edited by Margo Lundell (Scholastic Press)
2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winner
Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
James Haskins and Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Lothrop Lee & Shepard)
2000 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Hyperion)
1999 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
1995 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)
1994 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Seven Candles for Kwanzaa
Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Dial Books)
1994 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom
Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
1992 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
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