Singing Justice, Singing Peace
The Story of Joan Baez
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 24 feb 2026
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- $229.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $229.00
Descripción editorial
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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Joan Baez's commitment to peace and justice provides the driving force of this impassioned biography from Brown and Mendoza. "By the time Joan was five, she knew she wanted to make the world a better place," the opening text highlights. 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. An author's note concludes. Ages 4–8.
