15 Picture Books to Start a Radical Bookshelf

Article by Gwendolyn Wallace

“Since my early twenties, when I started to seriously consider whether I want to have children, I’ve been increasingly hearing something like this from peers in the U.S.: “I don’t want to have children because of how terrible the world is right now, and I only see it getting worse in the future.” The “terrible” things of the world being the climate crisis, police violence, declining reproductive rights, rising fascism, and a long list of other horrors that come with late-stage capitalism. 

I love children; that’s one of the main reasons I became a children’s book author. And I can understand the sentiment above. But it makes me bristle. People should always have the freedom to decide whether or not to have children, and it’s essential to realize that the attitude that people shouldn’t have children now reproduces eugenic rhetoric about who ought or ought not have a child…”

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