A breathtakingly simple poem of universal experience shows us the transformative power of collective action.
"Together offers a vision of the world we want for our children, one in which all living things flourish, our communities thrive, and justice prevails.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Antiracist Baby
In Together, social justice kids book pioneer Innosanto Nagara teams up with poet and activist Mona Damluji for a stunningly tender and pitch-perfect visual feast that juxtaposes individual action with the power of people acting together. Each of the ten free-verse couplets in the poem is spread across four pages of imagery, to make a unique and different kind of board book for young kids to discover with their families.
The first illustrated book in which Nagara applies his extraordinary visual imagination to words not his own, Together is simplicity itself—a poem about the transformational change that happens when people stop acting alone and start doing things together. Together is Nagara's third board book, following the immensely popular social justice board books A is for Activist and Counting on Community.
MONA DAMLUJI writes, studies and teaches about oil cultures, cinema history and the Middle East as an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara. She is a co-producer of the Peabody- and Emmy-nominated web series The Secret Life of Muslims and the author of Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq (UC Press, 2025), as well as the author of two children’s books published by Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square Books for Young Readers: Together (illustrated by Innosanto Nagara) and I Want You to Know (illustrated by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil). As curator, she has curated exhibits and events around the globe that feature path-breaking art, film, photography, and comics. Mona and her partner live in California with their two hilarious children.
INNOSANTO NAGARA was born and raised in Indonesia, and moved to the United States in 1988. After studying zoology and philosophy at UC Davis, he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations, eventually founding Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. He lives in a co-housing community and teaches martial arts at a collectively run dojo. The author and illustrator of six books for children, Nagara’s first book, A is for Activist, is credited with starting the movement in social justice book publishing for children. His other books are Counting on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, The Wedding Portrait, M is for Movement, Oh, the Things We're For! and, with Mona Damluji, Together.
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