Bryan Collier

Brynne Barnes | FICTION,  Feb 01, 2025

For public libraries, this book is an essential resource to celebrate diversity, promote positive representation, and engage readers in meaningful conversations about identity, joy, and the power of self-belief.

Michael Boulware Moore | NONFICTION,  Sep 20, 2024

A genuine account of an enslaved person daringly achieving a better life. Highly recommended for elementary school libraries.

Tami Charles | FICTION,  Mar 24, 2023

This awe-inspiring and phenomenal work of art belongs on all shelves.

Sandra Neil Wallace | NONFICTION,  Jan 27, 2023

Ending injustice through love and nonviolence, a quaint notion in these turbulent times, is a necessary message; purchase for public, school, and classroom libraries alike.

Renée Watson | NONFICTION,  Oct 01, 2022

Poetic and superbly illustrated, this tour de force belongs in every library.

Bryan Collier | FICTION,  Jun 01, 2022

When presented with difficult choices, music provides the focus and motivation for a boy to live up to a father’s advice and remember his mother’s love in this necessary paean to familial love.

illus. Bryan Collier | FICTION,  Sep 01, 2021

Powerful scenes, outstanding for all that they capture and urgently convey, will challenge all readers to find their place in the march to a more racially just future.

Tami Charles | FICTION,  Aug 14, 2020

Like Kristina Evans’s What’s Special About Me, Mama?, this also depicts a mother speaking to a child of color about his worth; a very timely story and a wonderful addition to school and public libraries.–Annmarie Braithwaite, New York P.L., New York City

Jonah Winter | NONFICTION,  Sep 01, 2019

This is no carefully neutral biography: it is a fervent celebration of a man whose work improved the lives of millions of Americans. This stirring portrait of an American hero is recommended for first purchase.