Little Rosa Luxemburg Starts a Big Revolution - Nathaniel Flakin, illustrated by Motow

A picture book for little Bolsheviks aged 3-6

If you’re reading this, you’re probably sick of children’s books that promise stories for “rebel girls” and then deliver bourgeois propaganda. Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Kamala Harris — these are supposed to be role models for our kids?

This book is different. Illustrator Motow from Rennes and author Nathaniel from Berlin present a woman who worked her whole life to rip out systems of oppression at the root. Rather than a boring biography, this is a fairy tale to teach small children the importance of collective resistance.

Full of cute, soviet retro drawings, and with plenty of inside jokes for revolutionary parents, this book will have your kid organizing strikes and boycotts in no time.

Nathaniel Flakin is a journalist and historian from Berlin.

Motow is an illustrator from Rennes.