Be The Change: The Future is in Your Hands by Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle is currently scheduled for release on March 1 2018. This book gives young readers the tools and encouragement needed to be the change they wish to see in the world. Featuring the popular founders of Hello!Lucky stationery, this guidebook offers instruction and guidance to spark readers’ creativity and inspire action in their local communities. The authors teach readers about great change-makers in history, the structure of community systems, and offer fun and creative project ideas to help budding activists get started making a difference right away.

Be The Change: The Future is in Your Hands is a book focused on empowering young people to understand and make changes in the world around them. I like that it is very encouraging to young women, focused on information about the government on all levels, community organizations, creativity, and how to get involved and help inform and encourage others. While I understand that the authors and the main audience of this book is more likely to be of the female persuasion, I felt like it was a little too focused on girls. If we want everyone to be involved, come together, and communicate I think it would be prudent to get people of all genders and walks of life involved. If the book is intended for girls only, then that should be included on the cover. It is not only CIS females that can feminists or should get involved. I did like the information and encouragement to get involved found in the book, and the idea behind it, I just felt like it could have been a little more inclusive.

Good:

Another inspirational book to encourage young folk to get involved with their community. Bright, colorful and quotes galore.

It gives positive action plan to create change. Encourages creativity in doing this.

Feminism, activism and working to create change in your community, etc.

They keep it general enough that it can be read by any girl wanting to change. There is no religious or political drumming happening while reading this as far as I can tell. They discuss religion, community, politics but there isn't trying to convert or change to certain groups.



Quotes and talking points are from inspirational activists -- Gandhi (who is of course controversial but liked enough to general public), speak about Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou,etc.

This is fantastic for kids who aren't already engaged with community work and want to get involved in some way.



Encourage change and also -- asking permission if under eighteen to do certain things.

Diversity in the people that they highlight -- people who have or are creating change for their communities.

Crafts that go along with the theme of creating change and fighting for things at the end of the book.

Bad:

For parents who don't want their children to be engage in things such as protests, feminism and "staying woke".

While protesting in American is legal and encouraged it's frowned upon by a lot of people. So, the idea of encouraging protests and activism for families may not be interested or find offense to this book.

Diversity in photos used in this book is very minimum. It looks as if some images are repeated or using the same girls -- so I think they're using images of people they know. Which limits the diversity of photographs.