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Read Your Heart Out!: Pre K - 2

Books to support Read Your Heart Out day.

Angels by Eloise Greenfield

Anna Hibiscus' Song by Atinuke

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: a song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford

Bessie Coleman by Eric Braun

Brothers and Sisters: family poems by Eloise Greenfield

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka

A Day With Daddy by Nikki Grimes

Firebird by Misty Copeland

God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday

Good Night, Baby Ruby by Rohan Henry

Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon

Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English

I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes

Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler

Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo & Diane Dillon

Jimmy Lee Did It by Pat Cummings

Kwanzaa by Denise M. Jordan

Kwanzaa: African American celebration of culture by Amanda Doering

Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan

Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn

Meet President Barack Obama by Laine Falk

My First Kwanzaa Book by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate

One Love based on the song by Bob Marley

Pitching in for Eubie by Jerdine Nolen

Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee

The Quilt by Ann Jonas

Sleeping Cutie by Andrea Davis Pinkney

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Sugar Hill: Harlem's historic neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford

This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt

Underground by Shane W. Evans

Violet's Music by Angela Johnson

What Will Mommy Do When I'm at School? by Dolores Johnson

Yes We Can! A salute to children from President Obama's victory speech

Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree by William Miller