Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| First Kissof True Lip-Locked Moments |
2007 |
Buy |
| Amazing Faces |
2010 |
Buy |
| Banned Together |
2025 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Come Sunday |
1996 |
Buy |
| It’s Raining Laughter |
1997 |
Buy |
| A Dime a Doze |
1998 |
Buy |
| Hopscotch Love |
1999 |
Buy |
| Is it Far to Zanzibar? |
2000 |
Buy |
| Shoe Magic |
2000 |
Buy |
| A Pocketful of Poems |
2001 |
Buy |
| Dreams by Day, Dreams by Night |
2002 |
Buy |
| What is Goodbye? |
2004 |
Buy |
| At Jerusalem’s Gate |
2005 |
Buy |
| Thanks a Million |
2006 |
Buy |
| Welcome, Precious |
2006 |
Buy |
| Voices of Christmas |
2009 |
Buy |
| Poems in the Attic |
2015 |
Buy |
| One Last Word |
2017 |
Buy |
| Between the Lines |
2018 |
Buy |
| Legacy |
2021 |
Buy |
| Glory in the Margins |
2021 |
Buy |
| Glory, Too: Poems |
2025 |
Buy |
Danitra Brown Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Meet Danitra Brown |
1984 |
Buy |
| Danitra Brown Leaves Town |
2001 |
Buy |
| Danitra Brown, Class Clown |
2005 |
Buy |
Disney’s Winnie-The-Pooh’s Helping Hands Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Oh, Bother! No One’s Listening |
1991 |
Buy |
| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Baby-Sitting |
1991 |
Buy |
| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Fibbing! |
1991 |
Buy |
| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Fighting |
1991 |
Buy |
| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Messy! |
1992 |
Buy |
| Oh Bother! Someone’s Grumpy! |
1992 |
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| Oh, Bother! Someone Won’t Share |
1993 |
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| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Jealous! |
1994 |
Buy |
| Oh, Bother! Someone’s Afraid Of the Dark |
1994 |
Buy |
Dyamonde Daniel Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel |
2000 |
Buy |
| Rich |
2009 |
Buy |
| Almost Zero |
2010 |
Buy |
| Halfway to Perfect |
2012 |
Buy |
Garvey Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Garvey’s Choice |
2016 |
Buy |
| Garvey in the Dark |
2022 |
Buy |
Jerry Pinkney as Illustrator Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tales from Africa |
- |
Buy |
| The Ugly Duckling |
- |
Buy |
| The Little Match Girl |
- |
Buy |
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
- |
Buy |
| Early Autumn |
1927 |
N/A |
| The Flowering of New England |
1936 |
Buy |
| Lolita |
1955 |
Buy |
| Rabbit, Run |
1960 |
Buy |
| The Adventures of Spider |
1964 |
Buy |
| The Year Around Book |
1965 |
N/A |
| This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School |
1965 |
Buy |
| The Traveling Frog |
1966 |
Buy |
| A Book of Shapes & Sizes |
1966 |
Buy |
| The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India |
1967 |
Buy |
| Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep |
1967 |
Buy |
| The Clock Museum |
1967 |
Buy |
| Folktales and Fairytales of Africa |
1967 |
Buy |
| Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets |
1968 |
Buy |
| Kostas the Rooster |
1968 |
Buy |
| The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu |
1969 |
N/A |
| Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. |
1969 |
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| Babushka and the Pig |
1969 |
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| The Porcupine and the Tiger |
1970 |
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| Cora Annett’s Homerhenry |
1970 |
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| The King’s Ditch |
1971 |
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| The Planet of Junior Brown |
1971 |
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| Femi and Old Grandaddie |
1972 |
Buy |
| JD |
1973 |
Buy |
| Kasho and the Twin Flutes. |
1973 |
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| Prince Littlefoot |
1973 |
Buy |
| Mickey and Minny |
1973 |
N/A |
| The Great Minu |
1974 |
N/A |
| Roots of Time |
1974 |
Buy |
| Song of the Trees |
1975 |
Buy |
| Wuthering Heights |
1975 |
N/A |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
1975 |
Buy |
| Yagua Days |
1976 |
Buy |
| Gulliver’s Travels |
1977 |
Buy |
| Selected plays |
1977 |
Buy |
| Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles |
1978 |
Buy |
| History of Tom Jones a Founding |
1978 |
N/A |
| Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir |
1979 |
Buy |
| Tonweya and the Eagles |
1979 |
Buy |
| These Thirteen |
1979 |
N/A |
| More Adventures of Spider |
1980 |
Buy |
| Count on Your Fingers African Style |
1980 |
Buy |
| The Covenant |
1980 |
N/A |
| Jahdu |
1980 |
Buy |
| Rabbit Redux |
1981 |
N/A |
| Monster Myths of Ancient Greece |
1981 |
Buy |
| Apples On A Stick |
1983 |
Buy |
| The Patchwork Quilt |
1985 |
Buy |
| Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna |
1987 |
Buy |
| Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea |
1987 |
Buy |
| Mirandy and Brother Wind |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Green Lion of Zion Street |
1988 |
Buy |
| More Tales of Uncle Remus |
1988 |
Buy |
| Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Talking Eggs |
1989 |
Buy |
| Turtle in July |
1989 |
Buy |
| Pretend You’re a Cat |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket |
1991 |
Buy |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
1991 |
N/A |
| David’s Songs |
1992 |
Buy |
| Back Home |
1992 |
Buy |
| Drylongso |
1992 |
Buy |
| A Starlit Somersault Downhill |
1993 |
Buy |
| I Want to Be |
1993 |
Buy |
| New Shoes for Silvia |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Sunday Outing |
1994 |
Buy |
| John Henry |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Jungle Book |
1995 |
N/A |
| Tanya’s Reunion |
1995 |
Buy |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
1996 |
Buy |
| Sam and the Tigers |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Hired Hand |
1997 |
Buy |
| Black Cowboy, Wild Horses |
1998 |
Buy |
| Journeys with Elijah |
1999 |
Buy |
| Aesop’s Fables |
2000 |
Buy |
| Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream |
2000 |
Buy |
| Goin’ Someplace Special |
2001 |
Buy |
| Noah’s Ark |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Nightingale |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Old African |
2005 |
Buy |
| Music from Our Lord’s Holy Heaven Book and CD |
2005 |
Buy |
| Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me |
2007 |
Buy |
| The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll |
2007 |
Buy |
| Sweethearts of Rhythm |
2009 |
Buy |
| A Starlit Snowfall |
2011 |
Buy |
| The First Adventures of Spider |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales |
2012 |
Buy |
| In Plain Sight |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Christmas Boot |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Home in the Barn |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Little Mermaid |
2020 |
Buy |
| A Walk in the Woods |
2023 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Malcolm X |
1992 |
Buy |
| Portrait of Mary |
1994 |
Buy |
| Talkin’ About Bessie |
1998 |
Buy |
| Tai Chi Morning |
2004 |
Buy |
| Barack Obama |
2008 |
Buy |
| Out of the Dark |
2009 |
Buy |
| Words with Wings |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ordinary Hazards |
2019 |
Buy |
| Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice |
2020 |
Buy |
Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Disney’s The Little Mermaid |
- |
Buy |
| Something on My Mind |
1986 |
Buy |
| Disney’s Mickey Mouse In Sky Island |
1990 |
Buy |
| Mickey Mouse in the Viking’s Eye |
1990 |
Buy |
| Minnie ’n Me |
1990 |
Buy |
| Walt Disney’s Pinocchio |
1992 |
Buy |
| Minnie’s New Friend |
1992 |
Buy |
| From a Child’s Heart |
1993 |
Buy |
| Walt Disney’s Cinderella |
1993 |
Buy |
| C is for City |
1995 |
Buy |
| Wild, Wild Hair |
1997 |
Buy |
| Baby’s Bedtime |
1999 |
Buy |
| My Man Blue |
1999 |
Buy |
| At Break of Day |
1999 |
Buy |
| Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s Gift |
1999 |
Buy |
| When Daddy Prays |
2002 |
Buy |
| Under the Christmas Tree |
2002 |
Buy |
| A Day with Daddy |
2004 |
Buy |
| When Gorilla Goes Walking |
2007 |
Buy |
| Oh, Brother! |
2007 |
Buy |
| Chasing Freedom |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Watcher |
2017 |
Buy |
| Bedtime for Sweet Creatures |
2020 |
Buy |
| Southwest Sunrise |
2020 |
Buy |
| Off to See the Sea |
2021 |
Buy |
| Playtime for Restless Rascals |
2022 |
Buy |
| A Walk in the Woods |
2023 |
Buy |
| Lullaby for the King |
2023 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Growin' |
1977 |
Buy |
| Jazmin’s Notebook |
1998 |
Buy |
| Stepping Out with Grandma Mac |
2001 |
Buy |
| Bronx Masquerade |
2001 |
Buy |
| Dark Sons |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Road to Paris |
2006 |
Buy |
| A Girl Named Mister |
2010 |
Buy |
| Planet Middle School |
2011 |
Buy |
Nikki Grimes is one of the most recognized names in children’s literature and poetry. Over a career spanning more than four decades, she has written picture books, verse novels, poetry collections, non-fiction, and novels for young readers. Her work frequently explores the Black experience in America, family relationships, faith, and the challenges of growing up. She has won multiple awards including the Coretta Scott King Award and the Children’s Literature Legacy Award.
Her output is remarkably wide-ranging. The Danitra Brown books introduced readers to a lively friendship told in verse. The Dyamonde Daniel series follows a spirited third-grader navigating school and community. Her poetry collections, from Come Sunday to Glory in the Margins, cover subjects from prayer and praise to literary response and personal memory. She has also written non-fiction biographies of figures like Malcolm X and Barack Obama, and contributed to Disney’s Winnie the Pooh character books early in her career.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Nikki Grimes written?
Nikki Grimes has written 182 books across ten series.
What was Nikki Grimes's first book?
Nikki Grimes’s first book is Early Autumn, published in 1927.
Has Nikki Grimes won any major awards?
Yes, Nikki Grimes has received the Coretta Scott King Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, and the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, among other honors for her contributions to children’s literature.