Written in a format usually meant to teach kids their ABCs, Nagara takes this intention of educating a step further. Inno lives in a cohousing community in Oakland where his child is the youngest of eight children to be born into the household, so he has "studied" a lot of children's books over the past twelve years.

This page not only emphasizes revolution and resistance, and the danger of centralized power, but also counters gender norms by showing a little girl in pink pigtails playing with a sword. Design Action is a worker-owned studio in Oakland, California, that is dedicated to serving the Movement for social change.

It's positive and uplifting, the illustrations are bright and include representations of diverse people, lots of them children, many of them smiling. Kids who are reading board books are not going to read this, nor will they be able to understand it. Rona Renner (RN, Parent Educator, Host Childhood Matters RadioShow): Innosanto Nagara’s book “A is for Activist” is beautiful, inspiring, and offers an opportunity for parents to explore their values with their children.

The book has even been linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement and praised as a “book for the kids of the 99 percent”. A de Activista is an important tool that re-enforces core educational standards and will inspire children towards civic participation in their communities and throughout the world! Nagara challenges this norm and makes every child from every background a protagonist in his story, while teaching new generations the value of activism. Written in the toddler format of pictures with words, I found the words got a bit complex for the focus-age group: Advocate, Abolitionist, Cooperating, Indigenous, Questioning, Querying, and "Z is for Zapatista of course".Although the book is meant for ages 0-3, Rethinking Schools has suggested that it can even be used with older kids: “It could also be used as a prompt for older students to create their own alphabet books with a conscience.