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One Equals Many

Written and Illustrated by Sonny Dean

Paperback, 34 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-1-7344663-3-1

Ebook, 19 pages, .mobi & .epub

ISBN: 978-1-7344663-4-8

Hardcover: 34 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-1-7344663-9-3

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One vote can change the world. With examples from nature and the arts, this powerful book shows children just how large of an impact we can have when we work together.

The artwork was inspired by Works Progress Administration posters and the book is a response to those who worry that their voice is too small to make a difference.

The Yellow Square

of Stonewall

Written and Illustrated by Sonny Dean

Paperback, 40 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-0-578-52735-2

Ebook, 22 pages, .mobi & .epub

ISBN: 978-1-7344663-0-0

Hardcover: 40 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-1-958194-02-7

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The story of the Stonewall uprising has been adapted for young children in this book with a timeless message.

A yellow square struggles to belong in a world full of pink circles and blue triangles. When she is rejected, she finds a home at Stonewall, a place where everyone understands that being different is good.

All is well until the pink circles and blue triangles decide Stonewall must be destroyed.

An image of the cover of the book The Yellow Square of Stonewall by Sonny Dean, published by Little Lambda Books. It shows a yellow square with a cartoon face smiling while looking down. The yellow square is standing on grassy ground, against a blue sky. She is standing beneath a large, stylized tree with the words "The Yellow Square of Stonewall" in the leaves.

An image of one of the pages of the book The Yellow Square of Stonewall by Sonny Dean, published by Little Lambda Books. It shows a green grass background taking up 4/5 of the page with blue sky at the top. The entire green grassy area is covered with 7 rows of uniform cartoon white square houses with black roofs, getting smaller as they approach the horizon. In every house there are identical copies of two cartoon people: a light pink circle on the left and a light blue triangle on the right. They have neutral expressions. In the bottom row, in the house the second from the right side of the page there is a yellow cartoon square smiling at the viewer. In the houses on either side of her and directly above her, the pink circle and blue triangle pairs are hiding behind their roofs, looking at her with fear and jagged frowns. There is grey text in the sky that reads "When the circles and the triangles saw the home that she had made, her yellow color and four corners made them ever so afraid."

A page from the book The Yellow Square of Stonewall by Sonny Dean, published by Little Lambda Books. It shows a grey panel on the left and a blue panel on the right. peeking out from the edges of the blue panel looking down to the center of the bottom of the blue panel, there are four cartoon people on each side- mirrored exactly between the two sides. There is a light blue triangle on top, then a light pink circle below, then another blue triangle, then another pink circle. They all look very angry and are glaring down at a tiny, sad looking yellow square who is looking down and about to cry. There is black text on the left in the grey panel that reads"They told her being different
Was not good at all.
Their fear made them angry..."
The text in continued in the center of the blue panel, in grey, with one word per line, decreasing in font size until right above the yellow square. It reads "She felt very, very, small."

A page from the book The Yellow Square of Stonewall by Sonny Dean, published by Little Lambda Books. It shows a cartoon version of the wall of the Stonewall Inn- there is green grass at the bottom 1/6 of the page, red brick walls filling most of the page, and tan stucco filling the top 1/6 of the page. on the left side of the page there are over 60 cartoon shape people on top of each other like a human pyramid- in a wide variety of colors and shapes- all smiling. Some are looking at the viewer, others are smiling at each other, some are looking at a large black window on the right side of the page. The window has freshly painted blue letters dripping paint down on the people below. The message on the window is in all bold capital letters in light blue in and it reads " Different is Good!". The paint is dripping onto the people below who are standing next to a paint can with a wet paintbrush. There are splotches of the blue paint all over the ground. There is also paint splattered on the six shapes who just painted the message, the six shapes are in the colors of the LGBTQ Pride flag: a red rectangle, an bright orange flower, a yellow square, a green shape made of four circles, a royal blue rounded trapezoid, and a bright purple angular hourglass. The picture is composed in a way to bring to mind Norman Rockwell's Golden Rule painting, and especially Fred W. McDarrah's photographs of the street kids at the Stonewall Riots. The text on the window is an homage to Dick Leitsch who is alleged to have written the famous sign on the boarded up windows of the Stonewall Inn, Frank Kameny who created the world changing slogan "Gay is Good", and Craig Rodwell who worked tirelessly to promote the idea that Gay is Good! There is black text in the top right corner of the page that reads "Yellow square was happy.
No more was she alone.
Her friends said, "Different is good!"
She had finally found her home."

We Stand With Ukraine:
One Equals Many

Written and Illustrated by Sonny Dean

Paperback, 34 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-1-7344663-8-6

Ebook, 19 pages, .mobi & .epub

ISBN: 978-1-958194-01-0

Hardcover: 34 pages, 8.5 x 11

ISBN: 978-1-958194-00-3

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We Stand With Ukraine: One Equals Many is a special edition of the book, One Equals Many.

The author, Sonny Dean, and the publisher, Little Lambda Books, are donating all profits from this book to United Nations Crisis Relief Ukraine.

Seeing the unspeakable horror of the invasion of Ukraine, many of us feel helpless and struggle with how to explain it all to the children in our lives. We at Little Lambda Books believe strongly that every single one of us can do our part to help, by calling our elected officials and urging action, raising money for relief efforts, fighting disinformation, and voting into power those who will do the right thing. It is more important than ever to realize the power we have together and remember that one vote can truly change the world.