Happy Juneteenth! We thought, since this is being published on the actual federal holiday, and since the holiday is still fairly new, that we’d do a collection of all the books celebrating Juneteenth specifically, and freedom in general. Enjoy!
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
by Angela Johnson
Simon & Schuster
2014 Fiction Picture Book Nominee
Freedom in Congo Square
by Carole Boston Weatherford
little bee books
2016 Fiction Picture Book Nominee
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Dial Books
2015 Senior High Nonfiction Nominee
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Jump at the Sun
2014 Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction Nominee
For Every Little Thing: Poems and Prayers to Celebrate the Day
edited by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling, illustrated by Helen Cann
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
2021 Poetry Nominee
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
by Joel Christian Gill
Fulcrum Press
2014 Young Adult Graphic Novels Nominee
Roots and Blues: A Celebration
by Arnold Adoff
Clarion Books
2011 Poetry Nominee