Jabari Asim
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Jabari Asim is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim is Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Letters at Emerson College and the author of 14 books for children and 8 for adults, as well as a poet and a Guggenheim Fellow. He spent eleven years at the Washington Post, where his roles included deputy editor of the book review section and children's book editor, and he later edited the NAACP's Crisis magazine.
Also by this author: Whose Knees Are These? · Fifty Cents and a Dream · Preaching to the Chickens
Official website: jabariasim.org
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.