Although the “For the Children” program does not accept random book donations (they have limited space, and want to be sure the books that they do keep are appropriate for their students), at our request they did share the wish list below of books that they would like to have for the program, but currently do not have funds to purchase.
If anyone is interested in purchasing a book from the list, please complete the contact form on this page and let us know what book you will be getting, so we can keep track of any books that have been purchased, and so we can send you the details for shipping etc. We also would like to share with you our book plate designs. (A book plate will be placed in each book that is donated to the “For the Children” program through the Ian Zelazny Fund.)
| Title | Author |
| Whoosh! | Chris Barton |
| This Kid Can Fly | Aaron Philp |
| Juneteenth | Floyd Cooper |
| Chocolate Me! | Taye Diggs |
| One Word from Sophia | Jim Averbeck |
| Emmanuel’s Dream | Laurie Ann Thompson |
| One Million Men and Me | Kelly Starling Lyons |
| The Adventures of Obi and Titi | O.T. Begho |
| Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| I Am Mixed | Garcelle Beauvais |
| Max and the Tag Along Moon | Floyd Cooper |
| Book of Black Heros from A-Z | Wade Hudson |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid (complete series) | Jeff Kinny |
| Jazz Age Josephine | Jonah Winter |
| One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Gracia |
| How the Lepoard Got His Claws | John Iroaganachi |
| One Love | Cedella Marley |
| My Friend Maya Loves to Dance | Cheryl Willis Hudson |
| You Can Do It! | Tony Dungy |
| Whose Knees Are These? | Jabari Asim |
| Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen |
| Little Lion Goes to School | Kellie Magnus |
| Come On Rain | Karen Hesse |
| Cornrows | Camille Yarbrough |
| Shortcut | Donald Crews |
| My First Trip to Africa | Atlantis Tye Browder |
| Bright Eyes, Brown Skin | Cheryl Willis Hudson |
| Black Mother Goose Book | Elizabeth Oliver |
| Just Us Women | Jeannette Caines |
| Jenny Giraffe (series) | Cecil Dartz |
| Freedom in Congo Square | Carole Bostin Weatherford |
| Happy Jazz Fest | Cornell P. Landry |
| If I Were a French Quarter Rat | Sharon Denise Talbot |
| Mardi Gras in New Orleans (an alphabet book) | Karen Jansen |
| Gumbo Goes Downtown | Carol Talley |
| Noli in New Orleans | Lauren Raquel Laguna |
| Lil Yats New Orleans Christmas | Rhonda Johnson Valladares |
| Finding Dory | Pixar |
| Dinosaur Bones | Bob Barner |
| Ser Como el Bambu | Ismael Cala |
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