The Episcopal bishop who in January angered President Donald Trump has a deal for 2 books for younger individuals. Each are based mostly on the Proper Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s best-selling “How We Learn to Be Brave.”
Penguin Younger Readers introduced Wednesday that it’s going to launch a younger grownup version, tailored by novelist Bryan Bliss and titled “We Can Be Brave,” on Oct. 25. The image ebook “I Can Learn to Be Brave,” with illustrations by Holly Hatam, is scheduled for the summer time of 2026.
“Every day, children and adolescents face challenges that require great courage — from taking their first steps to walking through the doors of a new school. With these books I hope to remind young readers that learning to be brave is simply part of life,” Budde stated in a press release. “The process involves taking risks, making mistakes, asking for help, and slowly gaining competence in whatever once felt impossible. We never stop learning to be brave, and some of our most formative experiences occur when we are young.”
Trump and Vice President JD Vance amongst others attended an inauguration prayer service on the Washington Nationwide Cathedral, the place Budde famous that Trump had stated he was saved by God from assassination. She urged he present mercy for migrants within the nation illegally and for the LGBTQ+ group.
“You have felt the providential hand of a loving God,” she stated. “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”
In feedback later posted on social media, Trump referred to as her a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater.”
Budde’s “How We Learn to Be Brave” was first printed in 2023, nevertheless it attracted wider consideration after the January service.
