Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs

Alternating spreads frame this comprehensive double biography of married activists Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) and James Boggs (1919–1993) authored by Shin and Mangal. Following Grace Lee Boggs from her Rhode Island birth and James Boggs from his Alabama upbringing, free-verse lines delineate each figure’s early experiences with discrimination and their 1953 meeting in Detroit. Both involved in the union movement, they collaborate on a newspaper, “writing and publishing/ FOR the workers.” Along the way, the two also fall for each other and marry: “It didn’t matter that... their relationship/ was illegal/ in parts of the country.” A painterly approach distinguishes exemplary portraiture from multimedia artist Barlow, making a picture book debut; the characters’ expressions convey both their connection and their fervent passion for fighting for equity across a work about “a true/ collaboration,/ a union/ of love/ and struggle.” Creators’ notes and more conclude. Ages 7–11. (Nov.)