Escape the Velvet Cage – How you can help change our world with critical economic literacy

You live quite comfortably. And yet something about the world you live in doesn’t sit right.

Escape the Velvet Cage names that feeling — a cage lined in comfort, with no lock, and no one standing guard. In three short chapters, economist and educator Dr. Catherine Ho walks you through seeing the cage, questioning the story that built it, and re-membering what it tore apart.

This isn’t a book about guilt. It’s an invitation to use whatever privilege you already have to help change our world — starting with how you see it.

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The cage was never locked.

The Sammi Project is a picture book for children who deserve more than easy answers. It follows Luke and his rescue dog Sammi through an impossible choice — then stops, hands the book to your child, and asks: what would you do? The world’s first Critical Economic Literacy reader for young people, because some questions are too important to answer for them.

  • Author Dr. Catherine Ho
  • Illustrator Marta Vilella
  • ISBN 978-981-94-6429-6
  • Format Hardcover
  • For Ages 5-12 and the adults who read with them