# A Rule Is to Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy - Hardcover

by **John Seven** (Author), **Jana Christy** (Author)

_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.

  

### Author Biography

John and Jana found success in comics with their book _Very Vicky_. In 2003, their illustrated family travelogue, _Four Go Mad in Massachusetts_, was published by Commonwealth Editions. Most recently, John and Jana collaborated on two picture books, _Happy, Sad, Silly, Mad: My World Makes Me Feel_ (Andrews McMeel, 2009), and _The Ocean Story_ (Picture Windows, 2011), which won _Creative Child_ magazine's 2011 Creative Child Award Seal of Excellence and was short-listed for the 2012 Green Earth Book Award. A board book for the under-five crowd, _A Year With Friends_, is forthcoming from Abrams in 2012.  

**Number of Pages:** 44

**Dimensions:** 0.3 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 20, 2012

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