New Release Books by Jana Christy

Form a smiling mob and join together in celebrating love, friendship, kindness, and compassion for others as we resist tyranny!

"To call Happy Punks 1 2 3 ''adorable'' would be an understatement. It tells us ''Welcome to Planet Earth!'' and ''Here''s some cool stuff you could do in life!''"—Teresa Taylor, B*tthole Surfers Welcome to New Flip City, a Busytown for a new era and home of the Happy Punks, twelve colorful, fun-loving, and creatively exciting friends. Come along as the Happy Punks get ready for their big show and are joined by their friends, a collection of animals, robots, zombies, snowmen, cavemen, and more who make life in New Flip City fun—and who all love to dance at the end of the day! In Happy Punks 1 2 3 we meet each of the punks as they go through their day, explore New Flip City, meet up with their friends, and have a big party with music and dancing. We also learn to count to twelve! John Seven and Jana Christy are a married creative team living in western Massachusetts. They have published several books together, including the award-winning science picture book The Ocean Story, recipient of the Creative Child Award Seal of Excellence.

"A Rule Is To Break says: Go ahead and throw your best self a party! So glad it exists."—Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses "After encountering the lively little anarchist in John and Jana''s delightful A Rule is To Break, I will always remember the playful little devil with a mind of her own. A children''s book on anarchy seems somehow just right: an instinctive, intuitive sense of fairness, community, and interdependence sits naturally enough with a desire for participatory democracy, self-determination, and peace and global justice."—Bill Ayers, author of To Teach: The Journey in Comics and Fugitive Days Simply celebrating childhood: the joy, the wonder of discovery, the spontaneity, and strong emotions. . . . Wild Child is free to do as she pleases. A Rule Is To Break: A Child''s Guide to Anarchy follows Wild Child as she learns about just being herself and how that translates into kid autonomy. It presents the ideas of challenging societal expectations and tradition and expressing yourself freely in kid-terms that are both funny and thought provoking—it even functions as a guidebook for adults to understand what it is to be a critically thinking, creative individual. Wild Child is the role model for disobedience that is sometimes civil. John Seven and Jana Christy''s previous collaboration The Ocean Story won Creative Child magazine''s 2011 Creative Child Award Seal of Excellence and was shortlisted for the 2012 Green Earth Book Award.

This whimsically illustrated board book works its way through a whole list of aspirations, encouraging even the littlest kids to dream big. What will you be In Your Dreams? Will you be a cowboy? An astronaut? The ruler of a candy castle? The possibilities are endless, and kids will have loads of fun considering all of them. It''s specially sized for smaller hands and sturdily constructed, too. This sweet board book with soft, dreamy illustrations and bouncy rhyming text will encourage even little kids to dream big!