Can we please give the police department to the grandmothers? / written by Junauda Petrus ; illustrated by Kristen Uroda.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2023Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593462331
- 0593462335
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Friends & Neighbors | PETRUS JUNAUDA | Available | 33111011053291 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | PETRUS JUNAUDA | Available | 33111011267099 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023
Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police aren't in charge of public safety and community well-being.
Petrus first publishedand performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, blocks from Junauda's home.
In its picture book incarnation, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? is a joyously radical vision of community-based safety and mutual aid. It is optimistic, provocative, and ultimately centered in fierce love. Debut picture book artist Kristen Uroda has turned Junauda's vision for a city without precincts into a vibrant and flourishing urban landscape filled with wise and loving grandmothers of all sorts.
Ages 4-8. Dutton Children's Books.
Grades K-1. Dutton Children's Books.
"A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged"-- Provided by publisher.