In addition to being a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor, Toni Morrison also authored five children's books. In general, her children's books, co-authored with her son Slade Morrison, are perceptively insightful and often underhandedly, or overtly, critical of societal norms or status quos. While this means that they might not become a young readers next favorite books, they are a meaningful addition to your children's book collection and an enduring contribution to children's literature.