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@joyfulcarla @grayhaven "The Capybaras" by Alfredo Sonderguit is maybe the one book on my list of maybe 100 children's books I really like that I think meets these criteria (though perhaps others might feel differently?). Most on my list just don't deal with oppression/liberation at all which is its own kind of bias, as if those topics are too complicated for kids or somehow don't impact them. I like Flett's stuff but haven't thought of it as liberatory; perhaps that reflects which of her stuff my library has. I've added Shaun Tan to my "look for" list. "Treehouse Town" written by Gideon Sterer and illustrated by Charlie Mylie, "Run Wild" by David Covell, and "Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest" by Phoebe Wahl all feel like they're close, but not quite there on all dimensions. There's a *lot* of stuff out there that's outright regressive (e.g., fairy tales about the good king) and another heaping of stuff that is explicitly adult-supremacist (like "Green Eggs and Ham"), so finding something that isn't either feels like a win already but that doesn't actually mean it's helping kids understand or navigate the world any better at a social level (for example there's tons of great nature-centered books that aren't bad but IMO don't move the needle very far in a positive direction on kids self-conception or understanding of society. I'm of the opinion that writing children's books is actually an urgently needed and really impactful anarchist activity right now...