A is for Activist

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I love that there is now a book I can share with my granddaughters that teaches a new vocabulary about human and social justice values - and workers rights!

A former colleague posted a photo of a children’s book as her Facebook profile picture – A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara.

Certain pages taught me things, other pages made me well up, all the pages made me glad my children would be hearing these messages from a young age.

After studying zoology and philosophy at UC David, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations, before founding the Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. Once they are in grade 4 or so, we can start telling them the details of the harsh reality of this world. Following the success of A is for Activist, Inno wrote and illustrated a follow-up board book, Counting on Community (2015). If you want to make a board book touching on social issues it should be understandable for young children.Inno lives in a co-housing community in Oakland where his child is the youngest of eight children to be born into the household. Now with sign-language pictures of each letter in keeping with Nagara's inclusive vision, this engaging book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future.