Ilustrado por Innosanto Nagara
Following on the outrageous success of Innosanto Nagara’s A is for Activist (now in its fourth printing), A de Activista is a Spanish-language ABC board book written by Grammy Award-winning lyricist and singer Martha Gonzalez and illustrated by Nagara for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, calling them to action while teaching them a love for books.
Author
Martha E. Gonzalez
MARTHA GONZALEZ is an artist, activist, feminist music theorist, and Fulbright scholar from East Los Angeles. For the past seventeen years, she has been a singer and percussionist for the band Quetzal, which has made a considerable impact on LA’s Chicano music scene. Their 2013 effort Imaginaries won the Grammy Award for “Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album.” Gonzalez holds a PhD in Feminism from the University of Washington, Seattle, and is currently Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
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Innosanto Nagara
INNOSANTO NAGARA was born and raised in Indonesia, and moved to the United States in 1988. After studying zoology and philosophy at UC Davis, he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations, eventually founding Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. He lives in a co-housing community and teaches martial arts at a collectively run dojo. The author and illustrator of six books for children, Nagara’s first book, A is for Activist, is credited with starting the movement in social justice book publishing for children. His other books are Counting on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, The Wedding Portrait, M is for Movement, Oh, the Things We’re For! and, with Mona Damluji, Together.
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