I cut my political teeth on United Farm Worker grape boycotts in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Books represent another important economic leverage opportunity.
Merger mania has hit publishing, with a concurrent loss of both art and idea. But small publishers exist continue to produce good books. My biases are a predilection for poetry and writing that sing off the page, graceful art depicting a rainbow of families, and stories that serve as a warp and woof in weaving together a fragile world. Following are some of the brightest lights in children's publishing. Plough Publishing House of the Society of Brothers.