Children's books in order

Jerry Craft's children's books include picture books, chapter books, and educational titles spanning nearly two decades of illustration and storytelling for young readers.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Home Schoolin' 2007 Jerry Craft Buy
2 Hillary’s Big Business Adventure 2008 Jerry Craft Buy
3 Looking to the Clouds for Daddy 2009 Jerry Craft Buy
4 A is for Anacostia 2010 Jerry Craft Buy
5 Please Don’t Yell at We 2010 Jerry Craft Buy
6 Who Would Have Thunk It 2012 Jerry Craft Buy
7 My Surgery 2013 Jerry Craft Buy
8 The Offenders 2013 Jerry Craft Buy
9 What’s Below Your Tummy Tum? 2013 Jerry Craft Buy
10 Just Because 2013 Jerry Craft Buy
11 Bakari Katari Johnson and the Zero Degree Zombie Zone 2014 Jerry Craft Buy
12 S Is for South Side 2015 Jerry Craft Buy
13 Shauna 2015 Jerry Craft Buy
14 Purr!: A Children’s Book About Cats 2015 Jerry Craft Buy
15 Danica Dramatica 2015 Jerry Craft Buy
16 I didn’t do it! It wasn’t me! 2017 Jerry Craft Buy
17 Mama’s Boyz 2017 Jerry Craft Buy
18 Baby Boy, What Will You Be? 2018 Jerry Craft Buy
19 Harper Counts Her Blessings 2018 Jerry Craft Buy
20 Khalil’s Way 2020 Jerry Craft Buy
21 J vs. K 2025 Jerry Craft Buy

Jerry Craft’s children’s book catalog stretches from 2007 to 2025, covering picture books, chapter books, and educational titles. His earlier works include Home Schoolin’ (2007), Please Don’t Yell at We (2010), and the alphabet books A is for Anacostia and S Is for South Side, which celebrate specific communities through illustrated letter books.

His range as a children’s author is broad. He has written books about surgery preparation (My Surgery), body autonomy (What’s Below Your Tummy Tum?), cats (Purr!), and counting blessings (Harper Counts Her Blessings). Mama’s Boyz (2017) collects his long-running comic strip, while Khalil’s Way (2020) and other titles show his commitment to telling stories for and about Black children.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Children's series?

There are 21 books in the Children’s series, published between 2007 and 2025.

What is the first book in the Children's series?

The first book in the Children’s series is Home Schoolin’, published in 2007.

What kinds of children's books has Jerry Craft created outside the New Kid series?

Craft has written and illustrated a wide variety of children’s works, from picture books like Baby Boy, What Will You Be? and Just Because to educational titles like A is for Anacostia and S Is for South Side. He has also created the humorous series Mama’s Boyz and the chapter book Bakari Katari Johnson and the Zero Degree Zombie Zone.

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