Children’s picture books that have been banned or challenged in the u.s.a
🚧under construction🚧 Recommendations always welcome!
created by bookishpancit
last updated April, 2026
Families
Shelley Rotner
Everywhere Babies
Susan Meyers
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Derrick Barnes
Donovan's Big Day
Lesléa Newman
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
Selina Alko
The Baby Tree
Sophie Blackall
Around Our Way on Neighbors' Day
Tameka Fryer Brown
Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
My Moms Love Me
Anna Membrino
Last Stop on Market Street
Matt de la Peña
Hair Love
Matthew A. Cherry
Sulwe
Lupita Nyong'o
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
Angela Johnson
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Family Book
Todd Parr
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race
Megan Madison
And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson
Your Name Is a Song
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
A is for Activist
Innosanto Nagara
Pink Is for Boys
Robb Pearlman
Julián Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love
This Day in June
Gayle E. Pitman
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
Theresa Thorn
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