Children & Parenting

Victoria Law and China Martens
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framework of social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation.

Cynthia Chin-Lee • Illustrator: Lea Lyon
This picture book shows the heartwarming and humorous actions of Alex and her younger brother, Nicky, to convince their parents to get married before the passage of Prop 8.

Editors: Jeremy Adam Smith and Tomas Moniz
The best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory.

Summer Brenner
Blend a spoonful of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, a dash of Maupin's Tales of the City, and a few pinches of the Adventures of Lassie and you get a powerful, fast-moving novel for young and old alike.

Jacinta Bunnell • Illustrator: Nathaniel Kusinitz
Sometimes the Spoon... aids the work of dismantling the Princess Industrial Complex by moving us forward with more honest representations of our children and ourselves.

Claire Askew
Whether you're a teenager who is thinking about going vegan or already vegan, this is the ultimate resource, written by someone like you, for you.

Pegi Deitz Shea
A powerful novel about a teen struggling with flashbacks from his war-torn past in Africa. Follow Abe through track meets, dates, and loving interactions with his adopted family while uncovering terrible memories of the war.

Editors: Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, Sarah Talbot
The stories in this collection provide parents of "special-needs" kids with a dose of both laughter and reality.

Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak
Girls Are Not Chicks is a subversive and playful way to examine how pervasive gender stereotypes are in every aspect of our lives.