Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and New York Times Bestselling author of 21 books, including The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Passaic Poetry Prize. Kwame writes for children of all ages. His other works include Surf's Up, a picture book; Booked, a middle grade novel; and He Said She Said, a YA novel. Kwame believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his PAGE TO STAGE Writing and Publishing Program released by Scholastic. A regular speaker at colleges and conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world planting seeds of literary love (Singapore, Brazil, Italy, France, Shanghai, etc.). Recently, Alexander led a delegation of 20 writers and activists to Ghana, where they delivered books, built a library, and provided literacy professional development to 300 teachers, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an International literacy program he co-founded.
Series
Books
How Sweet the Sound
2025
Why Fathers Cry at Night
A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
2023
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
2018
The Write Thing
Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop ebook
2018
He Said, She Said
2013
Indigo Blume and the Garden City
2010
J vs. K
2025
Dancing Naked on the Floor
2005
And Then You Know
New and Selected Poems
2012
The Playbook
52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
2017
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
2017
How to Sing a Song
2024
Animal Ark
Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
2017
Solo Educator's Guide
2020
Alone Together
Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19
2020
Acoustic Rooster's Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume
2020
National Geographic Kids Photo Ark (Limited Earth Day Edition)
Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
2020
Booked
2016
Solo
2017
This Is the Honey
An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
2024
Kwame Alexander's Free Write
A Poetry Notebook
2020
The Door of No Return
2022
Out of Wonder
Poems Celebrating Poets
2017
How to Read a Book
2019
The Crossover Graphic Novel
A Graphic Novel
2019
Love & Profanity
A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life
2015
Booked
2022
An American Story
2023
The Crossover
2014
Light For The World To See
A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
2020
Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band
2011
Surf's Up
2016
The Undefeated
2019
Swing
2018
La Porte du non-retour T1
2023
Crush
Love Poems
1999
How to Write a Poem
2023
Kupenda
Love Poems
2000
Rebound
2018
Black Star
2024
