Abolition Is Love
by Ware Syrus Marcus (Author) Alannah Fricker (Illustrator)
What can abolition mean for a child? How can it help them dream a different future for their community?
In Abolition is Love, Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day. Amelie explores big concepts like love, justice, and care, and learns how we can build a different world together through the small choices we make every day. They learn to resolve a conflict with their cousin who plays differently than they do, they help their Papa plan a more accessible park for all, and collectively they create a beautiful banner. Amelie is also excited to hold their own candle at the rally, and they look forward to this big kid moment-to join the ranks of activists calling for justice and abolition.
The book explores possibilities for hope, and offers ideas for caring for each other and building communities rooted in social justice and safety for all people. Parents and teachers can engage young readers with the expansive illustrations and prompts that suggest new ways of being in the world together. Abolition is Love!
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Publishers Weekly
"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.)
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—adrienne maree brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy
JUV039120 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Conduct of life
Prisoners' families
Communities
