(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Read: Hellena Cavendi and Julie Grugeaux: An air of freedom (fr)

And if 400 years after May 1968 - or 2368 -, mankind lived in a free and egalitarian 
society where anarchy would finally deployed? ---- And if some nostalgic hate capitalism 
in the past sent a killer to assassinate the protest singer who created the song Liberty , 
which has allowed just then raise awareness and trigger the international revolution? ---- 
Phil, Lluvia, Amelie, Pierrot are four teenagers inseparable, bound by friendship, going 
back in time in a mad rush to try to prevent the assassination in 1980 of singer John 
Lesmoines and processing future hell deadly. ---- They discover with horror the capitalist 
past where the money reigned supreme, injustice, pollution and relentless wars. Thanks to 
the decisive help of two anarchists comrades encountered in the course of the twenty-first 
century, they will have, through an extraordinary adventure, face many dangers and take 
painful choices that can change the course of the world and change the future ...

Written at the age of 14 years Hellena Cavendi, this first novel, A libertarian air of 
freedom plays with skill and humor on the topic " today's utopias are tomorrow's 
realities . " It is illustrated with original and poetic manner by Julie Grugeaux.

The publisher associative Singing Nettles offers among other committed and lucid books for 
children. Include eg What is this work? written by Jean-Pierre Levaray and illustrated by 
David Rebaud, in which a ten year old girl talks about her father who works and fight in a 
dangerous factory Seveso, or the Album At the end of my garden , written by Thierry 
Maricourt and illustrated by Ana?s Ruch which tells the story of a little girl worried 
about the fate of hedgehogs from the bottom of his threatened by the construction of a 
highway garden.

Marcos Vega and Bob Lenno

? Hellena Cavendi Julie Grugeaux, an air of freedom , published Singing Nettles, 2012, 184 
pages, 15 euros.