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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

Bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the lessons to a younger generation.

Bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the lessons to a younger generation

he book cover for Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults features two illustrated hands braiding a rope of sweetgrass. On either side of the rope, the book cover below is purple and above is beige.

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living thingsfrom strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichenprovide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling bookBraiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt,Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adultsbrings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation. (From Lerner Publishing Group)

Robin Wall Kimmereris an American scientist, professorand enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Monique Gray Smith is a mixed-heritage Cree, Lakota and Scottish author who often writes and speaks about the resilience of Indigenous communities in Canada. She is also the author of the children's books Speaking Our Truth and You Hold Me Up and the novels Tilly and Tilly and the Crazy Eights.

Neidhardt is a Din visual artist and illustrator.

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