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Help support this awesome children's book about activism!

11/20/2014

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With under a week left in its Kickstarter campaign, the Russell family is trying to finish fundraising $35,000 to write and illustrate The ABC's of Activism, a book aiming to inspire children to be activists.

As one of the founding members behind the nonprofit Invisible Children, Jason Russell has teamed up with his wife, Danica, to create a book empowering children to start thinking about kindness and pro-active problem solving from a young age.

"We wanted to write this book for our own children, Gavin Danger & Everley Darling, as a way of explaining to them what we believe is worth fighting for, while teaching and empowering them to do the same. That they may realize: We are doing our best as parents – to give them the world, and we are doing our best as people – to make that world something worth having," wrote the couple on the project's Kickstarter page. 

The couple goes on to explain that, "after spending over a decade teaching people to fight injustice by taking action, we decided to write about our lessons learned, in the form of a fun children’s book. It is our hope that this book will also prompt questions, conversations, (and more!) in your home."

I have had the pleasure of meeting Jason and listening to him speak on multiple occasions, and I cannot say enough about how wonderful he is. He's a dreamer – and more importantly, a doer – in a world where people consistently tell you to play it safe and go with the norm. The fact that he has found a way to incorporate his whole family into this project is truly a statement of his character.


 Jason and Danica have decided to create this book without using a publisher because they, "believe a book about grassroots needs be grassroots," and I couldn't agree more.

If you could spare any amount of money, this is an excellent and extremely important project to support. Not only is it a children's book (which I obviously love), but the book has a message that I think is grossly underrepresented in books – for all ages – in today's literary world. 

The Russells still have six more days to raise the remaining $11,748 to meet their fundraising goal. To help fund this project and show your support, click here.
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    Tessa Fox is the Early Literacy Librarian at the Kenosha Public Library. After working in the journalism and publishing fields, Tessa decided to dedicate her life to books and public librarianship, and went back to school to get her Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she graduated in December 2016. Tessa has been working in public libraries since 2014. Disclaimer: The views expressed here are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer.


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