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  • New Book from Anacostia High School Students Debuts, From Anacostia with Love Available for Downloading Here

    New Book from Anacostia High School Students Debuts, From Anacostia with Love Available for Downloading Here

    (Washington, DC) A new book by a group of talented Anacostia High School seniors, “From Anacostia with Love: An Environmental Journey,” brings together essays, poems and photographs reflecting the students’ experiences exploring nature and historic sites across the region.

    The collection was created by 12 student authors who documented their observations and personal reflections after traveling to parks, forests, farms, rivers and other landscapes throughout the Washington area.

    Students, educators and community partners gathered at Anacostia High School in March to celebrate the book’s release.  The event was coordinated by Xavier Brown, Deputy Director of DAWN, and Nature-Wise Founder and Lead Instructor Caroline Brewer. Students read from selected works in the book.

    Download a copy of the book here.

    A group poem from the book follows:

    Sensing the Anacostia Courtyard

    Out the door of our air-conditioned school
    The sky is wide and pearly blue
    I touch the rail, still cool and black
    Taste the hot wind as it swarms my face
    See drops of water hugging blades of grass
    Green bushes and trees dominate the center and sides of the courtyard
    Competing for space
    I notice red brick walls stretching high
    Framing leaves that kiss the sky
    I’m feeling the heat as if there were a thousand suns
    And tiny rocks under my feet

    – Excerpt of group poem by Anacostia High School students

    “From Anacostia with Love” is the product of partnerships between the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and its Developing America’s Workforce Nucleus (DAWN) Initiative, DC Public Schools (DCPS) and Nature-Wise Founder Caroline Brewer, with additional funding support from Pepco.

    Download a copy of the book here.

  • Harriet Tubman’s Remarkable Journeys Through Darkness and Starry Skies

    A Black History Month First-Time Presentation

    Harriet Tubman owned the night, and she was at one with the stars. She had to be to take more than 13 remarkable trips on the Underground Railroad to lead herself and others to freedom.

    Join Award-winning Author-Illustrator Caroline Brewer  and Prince George’s County Public Schools Planetarium Director Patty Seaton on a journey into the night, under the stars, to get a better sense of the dangers Harriet and her passengers faced — and conquered — and learn more about the constellations that helped make her extraordinary success possible !Caroline will lead a rhythmic reading of her new award-winning book, Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature, as part of the program.

    Order copies in advance at this link.  It accepts all credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App.

    Friday, February 13, 7 p.m. at the Howard B. Owens Science Center (Planetarium), 9601 Greenbelt Road, Lanham, MD 20706.
    Email: howardb.owens@pgcps.org or call 301-918-8750 with questions.

    RSVP at this link. 
    Pay IN CASH at the door.
    $8 | Adults  
    $5 | Students/Teachers/Seniors/Military Families/First Responders

    Caroline Brewer takes audiences on journeys with her books. It is a communal affair – much like gatherings in villages of old and the most modern concerts on stages today. When Caroline hosts a journey with her books, she and audiences sing, chant, clap, toe-tap, and, if the spirit moves, dance across the pages of whatever story she and they have agreed to tell.

    Join us!  RSVP at this link.

    Order copies in advance at this link.  It accepts all credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App.

     

  • The Harriet Tubman Nobody Knew! Pre-order Now!

    The Harriet Tubman Nobody Knew! Pre-order Now!

    The Harriet Tubman Nobody Knew
    Available to Pre-Order Today!

    When Harriet Tubman was born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822, nobody knew this tiny Black girl-child would grow up to be a leader. Nobody knew she would learn to find her way by following the stars. Nobody knew she’d move through the woods as silently as an owl or work as a spy during the Civil War. Nobody knew the power she would draw from prayer. Nobody knew she would escape enslavement, rescue hundreds, and find the joys of freedom.
    Nobody knew she would become a force of nature, and that her journey would one day be chronicled in a 48-page picture book written and illustrated by Caroline Brewer.
    With compelling poetry perfect for reading aloud and luminous collage illustrations, Brewer brings readers of all ages into Harriet Tubman’s nature-fueled life and deep spirituality.

    Early reviewers are LOVING the story and the art, and are saying they’ve never seen or read a children’s book about Tubman like this. We believe it’s the first of its kind. Pre-Order Today at Bookshop or bookstores anywhere and find out soon what all the buzz is about!

  • NATURE-WISE – Connecting the Climate, Environment, Young People And You

    NATURE-WISE – Connecting the Climate, Environment, Young People And You

    YOU’RE INVITED: Leaders at schools, youth, religious and other non-profit or for-profit organizations are invited to book trainings for NATURE-WISE for 2024-2025!  You can host a professional development training or a Youth Engagement Program. Read below for Professional Development and here for Youth Engagement and email: caroline@carolinebrewerbooks.com for more information.

    What is Nature-wise? Nature-wise is a professional development training for educators and youth leaders designed to help children and teens understand and practice, on creative levels, that human beings are included in the definition of the environment. Protecting it is protecting us. We can’t protect what we don’t know or understand. The good news is that from our earliest days, we practice literacy and that opens a world of wondrous possibilities and opportunities to explore all the literacies — reading, writing, speaking, seeing, hearing, visual arts, music, dance, games, and so many more – as we dig deeper into the natural world, our place in it, and our power to be climate activists and better protect all living things.

    Teachers will enjoy to work with me, a children’s book author, to introduce students to children’s books on the environment; Help students tap into the power of poetry to articulate feelings and observations about the environment; Bring local, national, and global environmental champions into students’ lives through picture books and online resources; Lead students on fascinating nature exploration journeys outdoors; Help students evaluate wildlife (colors, shapes, patterns, textures, and behaviors) in their school and home neighborhoods and create a neighborhood nature encyclopedia — and have fun!

    Teachers will have opportunities to address fears about being outside and about various forms of wildlife; Create and play vocabulary games based on books and other literature; Help students write class and individual letters to authors, climate and environmental champions; Help students create interview questions for environmental champions and authors; Help students create artwork inspired by stories and the work of environmental champions. And so much more!

    Email: caroline@carolinebrewerbooks.com for more information about how to bring Nature-Wise to your school or organization.

    WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT NATURE-WISE!
    Dear Caroline
    Just a note to thank you for your workshop last week. I had the most wonderful time and got so many great ideas. I’m a new-ish teacher (switched from journalism mid-career) and am always looking for ways to better my craft. Thanks to your ideas, I’m now using rhythmic poems every day and putting lyrics up on the board for my learners to read. They love it! I’m also halfway through your HTHS manual and am putting more of those ideas into practice. Thank you so much for doing what you do and for inspiring so many of us. It is helping countless numbers of children! All the best.

  • SAY THEIR NAMES – FREE Guide for Parents, Teachers, Youth Leaders

    SAY THEIR NAMES – FREE Guide for Parents, Teachers, Youth Leaders

    AUTHOR CREATES SAY THEIR NAMES
    IMAGINATION GUIDE

     

    NEW picture book offers many gifts,
    including a Positive Identity

    Author Caroline Brewer is leading highly inter-active and musical conversations with students, educators, parents and community groups about her new book  Say Their Names, with Reycraft Books.  In Say Their Names, a fictional 7-year-old Aliya responds to the aftermath of George Floyd’s death with poetry, history, and an invitation to a love-inspired future. Brewer says the book comes with more than 30 “gifts” for children, such as hope, courage, and empowerment, which all work together to form a positive identity. (See page 5 for the list and student-youth engagement opportunities).

    “As we have seen, especially since September 11, 2001, traumatic incidents, such as school shootings, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, racist and religious attacks, wars, pandemics, and the like, keep happening, seemingly with greater frequency, here and all over the world,” said Brewer, “In the face of the world’s ugliness, we’ll be counting on today’s youth to one day stand tall and lead our families, communities, and countries. So it’s critical that we – and they — are equipped with the confidence, language, empathy, mental and emotional stamina to handle the hard stuff. If I could give a child any gift, it would be the gift of a positive identity, and that’s what Say Their Names is all about,” says Brewer.

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    Goals of the picture book, Say Their Names: To be a channel for children’s agency, positive identity, strength, intellectual stimulation, healthy, self-actualized communication, to expand supportive communities, to be a source of hope, and a tool for imagining ways forward.

    Click here to get your FREE Imagination Guide!