Singing Justice, Singing Peace

The Story of Joan Baez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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An illuminating picture book biography of renowned Mexican American folk musician Joan Baez, whose songs of justice, peace, and activism have inspired listeners to create positive change across the world, from Christopher Award–winning author Monica Brown and Caldecott Honoree Molly Mendoza.From a young age, Joan Baez knew she wanted to make the world a better place. The daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Scotland, she learned values of compassion and advocacy from her parents. As Joan learned about people in need around the world, she sang to make herself feel better—and her beautiful voice made others feel better, too. Joan sang songs about workers’ rights, civil rights, and the struggle for justice. She started in coffee shops and clubs, worked her way to singing at folk festivals and on New York stages, and eventually she sang next to Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington, alongside César Chávez, and for the President of the United States. Joan realized music could move people’s hearts, minds, and feet toward a path of justice and peace. And she used the gift of her beautiful voice to do just that.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-26
Mått229 x 279 x 10 mm
Vikt492 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBeach Lane Books
Antal sidor48
FörlagSimon & Schuster
IllustratörMolly Mendoza
ISBN9781665926607

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Monica Brown is the award-winning author of more than thirty picture books for children, including Frida and her Animalitos, Waiting for the Biblioburro, Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match, and the Lola Levine chapter book series, inspired by her Peruvian and Jewish heritage. She is the recipient of two Américas Awards, a Pura Belpré Honor, and The Christopher Award, among others. Visit her at MonicaBrown.net.Molly Mendoza is an illustrator and comic artist who graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art. They have illustrated picture books including Jovita Wore Pants by Aida Salazar, which won a Caldecott Honor; Freedom, We Sing by Amyra León; Life Is Beautiful by Winsome Bingham; and Singing Justice, Singing Peace by Monica Brown and have worked with clients such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Wired, among others. They currently live in Portland, Oregon. Visit them at MollyMendoza.com.

Joan Baez’s commitment to peace and justice provides the driving force of this impassioned biography from Brown and Mendoza. . . . Moving quickly through Baez’s early years, crisp narration pinpoints the gift of a ukulele as a turning point for the would-be singer. Determining that “music could move people’s hearts, minds, and feet toward a path of justice and peace,” the subject is soon performing at coffee shops, clubs, and folk festivals, and pivotal figures including Odetta, Bob Dylan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. provide inspiration and chances for collaboration. Rendered with ink and colored digitally with warm tones, retro-style illustrations are composed like elaborate murals, across which sinuous and feathery adornments connect different vignettes. When Baez opens her mouth to sing, multicolored paisley spills forth—“giving listeners the courage and light to fight for justice”—in a portrait that stirringly foregrounds Baez’s political preoccupations.