Empowering Kids With Social Justice Picture Books

Michelle Markel and Anne Broyles

Children need empowering true stories about protest - now more than ever. They can be inspired by stories that demonstrate how any one of us can- and should- speak out for human rights. Two award-winning authors will have a conversation about the making of their recent biographies: I’m Gonna Paint: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People (Holiday House, 2023); and Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery (PM Press, 2025).