Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, a

Description: Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith, Nicole Neidhardt Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earths oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Monique Gray Smith is a mom, an award winning, bestselling author, and professional consultant. Her recent writing includes Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills with Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, When We Are Kind, I Hope, and Tilly and the Crazy Eights. Monique is Cree and Scottish and lives in Victoria, Canada. Nicole Neidhardt is a Diné (Navajo) artist of Kiiyaaáanii clan. She received her MFA from OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, and a bachelor of fine arts with a business minor from the University of Victoria. She is the cofounder of the Innovative Young Indigenous Leaders Symposium, alongside Gina Mowatt, and is the cofounder of Groundswell Climate Collective, a group that is fighting the climate crisis through resiliency and artwork. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Review "A book that is entirely in a class of its own, this belongs in every collection for teens."—starred, School Library Journal Review Quote "What an open-armed invitation for youth to enter into relationship with the ideas, the stories and the teachings from Robin Wall Kimmerers phenomenal and deserved bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass! This adaptation by Monique Gray Smith, the renowned and beloved writer for children and young adults, allows young readers to take into their lives the offerings and guidance of Robins stories, no matter what their experience is, no matter where they come from, no matter who they are. In language that respects the love for all living things that young people are born with, accompanied by powerful illustrations that are works of heart, this book is itself a beautiful braid of three women, dare I say Three Sisters--Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith and Nicole Neidhardt, brilliant storytellers, story-tenders and storykeepers. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults is a book to grow up with and grow into. It is both medicine and a loud and urgent call to honour the gifts of the earth and the responsibility to give gifts to the earth in return. Imagine growing up guided by the questions "How can we make our relations with the world sacred again?" and "What will your offering be?" This book will plant a garden in young hearts and then, oh, what a world!"--Shelagh Rogers, OC, host and producer of CBC Radio Ones The Next Chapter, and former chancellor of the University of Victoria Feature Sensitive adaptation of Robin Wall Kimmerers best-selling book for adults: Kimmerer is a Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Text was adapted for young readers by award-winning author Monique Gray Smith (Cree) Original artwork created by Nicole Neidhardt (Navajo) Reflection questions help tie teachings to curricular concepts Details ISBN1728458986 Author Nicole Neidhardt Short Title Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults Language English Year 2022 Illustrator Nicole Neidhardt ISBN-10 1728458986 ISBN-13 9781728458984 Publication Date 2022-11-01 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-11-01 NZ Release Date 2022-11-01 US Release Date 2022-11-01 UK Release Date 2022-11-01 Illustrations Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations, black and white Pages 304 Subtitle Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants DEWEY 305.8 Audience Teenage / Young adult Audience Age 12-18 Alternative 9781728460635 Publisher Lerner Publishing Group Imprint Lerner Publishing Group Place of Publication Minneapolis We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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