Counting on Community

“Meaningful change begins with doing small things at the local level, like picking up trash on the street, helping a neighbor, planting a community garden. Counting on Community encourages our children to embrace the power within each of us to create the world anew, to become SOLUTIONARIES.”

– Grace Lee Boggs, lifelong social activist and author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“Not only is Counting on Community an endearing an beautifully illustrated book, it represents the best hopes and dreams for our communities.”

– Bryant Terry, food justice activist, host of the PBS series The Endless Feast, and author of Afro-Vegan

“Innosanto Nagara is writing a new kind of children's book. Besides being a fun, rhythmic, and lively text to read, the book's illustrations present a world of diversity and complex, inclusive beauty. We should shower our children, schools, libraries, and our communities with books like this one.”

– Julia Alvarez, author of numerous books, including A Wedding in Haiti: the Story of a Friendship and In the Time of the Butterflies, and founding member of Border of Lights, an ongoing movement to promote peace and collaboration between Haiti and the Domi