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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Audiobook
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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 bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass.
This new edition, adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
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“In calm, reflective tones, Monique Gray Smith shares botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer’s insights as an Indigenous scientist…The pace and gentle presentation of this production allow listeners to engage with the material, including absorbing informative asides and thoughtful questions. The audiobook invites younger listeners to contemplate a wider definition of family that includes the natural world and to find kinship and connection within it.”
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“This belongs in every collection for teens."
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“Both an urgent, essential call to action and an uplifting love letter.”
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“Smith smartly streamlines language while staying true to the narrative’s core concepts."
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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About Robin Wall Kimmerer
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. Braiding Sweetgrass made the bestsellers list of the New York Times and the Washington Post and was named by Literary Hub as a Best Essay Collection of the Decade.
About Monique Gray Smith
Monique Gray Smith is Cree, Lakota, and Scottish, and a proud mom of teenage twins. She is an accomplished international speaker and the owner of an Indigenous consulting firm, Little Drum Consulting. Her life’s work is to raise awareness of the resilience of Indigenous peoples. An award-winning writer for children and adults, her first novel, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. Her books for children include You Hold Me Up, My Heart Fills With Happiness, and Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation>. Monique and her family are blessed to live on the traditional territory of the WSA´NEC people near Victoria, British Columbia.