The 2025 Social Justice Children’s Book Fair was a blast! Over 50 vendors, panels, storytime, activities, music, an award, and more! Thanks to our partners, The Conscious Kid and the Juvenile Justice Literacy Project, thousands of books were also donated to Oakland Schools and other bay area community libraries and organizations.
If you missed it, navigate over to our YouTube channel to get a taste of the day, watch some of the panels, and see the videos about the award recipients.
And it’s not too late to get books from the fair! Check out our shop on bookshop.org:
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2025 SOCIAL JUSTICE CHILDREN’S BOOK FAIR
2025 Participants
- Ajuan Mance
- Alejandra Domenzain
- Alphabet Rockers
- Angelo Monsalve
- Avy Jetter
- Aya de Leon
- Booki Vivat
- Brook M. Thompson
- Charlotte Cheng
- Crystel Patterson
- Gloo Books/ Karen Chan
- Hayley Diep
- Innosanto Nagara
- JaNay Brown-Wood
- Jill Guerra
- Jin Rou
- Joanna Ho
- John Casselberry
- Justine Villanueva/ Sawaga River press
- Khalid White
- Laura Atkins
- Lena Fuentes
- Mackenzie Lee Foster
- Madeline Connor
- Maggie Owsley
- Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- Malik Sickstein
- Mariah Parivizi
- Michael Genhart
- Meera Sriram
- Meredith Steiner
- Mona Damluji
- Nancy Kay
- Natasha Triplett
- Paige Mason
- PM Press
- Reflection Press (Maya and Matthew)
- Robert M. Alexander
- Robert Liu-Trujillo
Organizations: Children’s Fairyland, Mrs Dalloway’s Bookstore, Oakland Literacy Coalition, Oakland Public Library, and Reading Partners,
