Abolition is Love
By Syrus Marcus Ware
Illustrated by Alannah Fricker
By Syrus Marcus Ware
Illustrated by Alannah Fricker
By Syrus Marcus Ware
Illustrated by Alannah Fricker
By Syrus Marcus Ware
Illustrated by Alannah Fricker
Category: Children's Books
Category: Children's Books
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$16.95
Sep 26, 2023 | ISBN 9781644212554 | 3-7 years
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Sep 26, 2023 | ISBN 9781644212561 | 3-7 years
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Praise
*“Papa says abolition is love—it’s a way of dreaming about the future and making sure that we all get to be free.” As a brown-skinned family prepares signs for Prisoners’ Justice Day, Ware and Fricker outline abolition’s many meanings through the perspective of a child learning about the topic. In bright-hued, bustling illustrations, community members of various abilities, ages, body types, and skin tones create public art, protest police intervention, support unhoused neighbors, stand for the return of Indigenous lands, and welcome formerly imprisoned individuals with open arms. The narrator, too, serves the community, helping to make an accessible park, finding new ways to resolve conflict with a cousin, learning to pass knowledge on to others, visiting an incarcerated relative, and joining others in observing Prisoners’ Justice Day. It’s a powerful picture book that traces philosophies of community care and restorative justice, and exemplifies for readers ways to “help each other to get free along the way to abolition.” Ages 3–7. (Sept.)
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Syrus has given us an immense gift with Abolition is Love—this children’s book is full of practical visions of the future from characters who feel like community. Help our babies understand the breadth and complexity of abolition by reading them this text and having them read it to each other.”
—adrienne maree brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy
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