*Updated* Honoring Black Lives: A Virtual Picture Book Library
*Originally shared in this blog post June 16, 2020*
*Slideshow Newly Updated 1 / 21 / 22!*
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)