Description
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a mother, scientist, writer, decorated professor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was named to the Time list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2025. 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. Illustrated by Naoko Stoop’s whose love of drawing began when she was a young child growing up in Japan. Naoko now lives and paints in Brooklyn, New York.
When young Bud sees people bustling around, intent on their chores and their screens, she is certain they must be doing something important—and she wants to be a part of things by doing something important too. But wise Nokomis, her grandmother, shows her that there is a different way to find belonging, one that relies on stillness and that cultivates paying attention to the natural world. As Bud discovers the freely given gifts of the Earth, she wonders if she has something important to give back: What is her gift? With warmth, humor, and insight, Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves a reassuring and
uplifting story to inspire readers of all ages to treasure nature’s generosity and the gifts each one of us can share with the Earth. Audience: Ages 4-8.