Hello friends!
I’m thrilled to bring you a first look at…
JANE JACOBS: CHAMPION OF CITIES, CHAMPION OF PEOPLE
So many of you have supported my work through the many years it took to research, write, and re-write this book! (Thank you.) With just weeks away to the publication date, I appreciate your continued support! If you have a few minutes to help (and if you’re able to), would you:
Read an advance review copy of the book — simply reply to this email if you would like to have an early peek. (Or, if you know teachers, librarians, professors, or bookstagrammers who would love a copy, please pass this email on!)
Join me on Goodreads: there’s a great giveaway of my book happening there right now!
Pre-order the book! My local bookshop, Picturebook, can ship directly to you. Or you can purchase at all of the usual places where books are sold.
I am so appreciative of your support and thrilled to get Jane’s story in the hands of young readers!
My sincere gratitude,
Becky
PRAISE
“Thank you, Rebecca Pitts. Each generation deserves their own Jane Jacobs biography, written in the rhythms and sensibilities of today’s youth. When future urbanists now in school are asked where they first were introduced to the work and life of Jane Jacobs, I would not be surprised how many will credit Pitts’ phenomenally researched and entertaining book.”
—Barry Wittenstein, author of NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winning A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
“Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People is the civics education I wish I had when I was a teenager. Pitts brings Jacobs’s lessons on community organizing, civil disobedience, and city building to life with casual ease—all while not being afraid to question how Jane’s ideas hold up today.”
—Nathan Storring, co-editor of Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
