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Thank you all for joining us this Summer in celebration of Black illustrators and children’s book authors. We hope that you and your young children enjoyed listening to and reading these beautiful books featuring Black characters. The festival stretched far and wide, engaging over a 100,000 people across 44 countries worldwide! We were able to give away 1,800 books and arts+craft supplies to kids from Maine to Florida.

We are excited to invite you all to join us again next Summer as we celebrate virtually and hopefully in person; more Black children’s books created by more Black writers and illustrators. 

Please help us by donating. It takes a village!

Inaugural Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Virtual Festival

Ashley Bryan + Daniel Minter

Black Books Matter with Dr. Krista Aronson

Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan*

Beautiful Blackbird Beaks and Claws Craft

Beautiful Blackbird Show Claws Slide Dance

Going Down Home With Daddy

Mighty Family Tree Craft

Wherever I Go

Woven Crown Craft

Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings

Sing a Song

Magnificent Homespun Brown

Overground Railroad

Little Bird’s Flock

When Stars Are Scattered

Interview With Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

*This recording of Ashley Bryan’s Beautiful Blackbird is used with the permission of Kane-Lewis Productions, producer of the film I Know a Man … Ashley Bryan. www.vimeo.com/ondemand/ashleybryan