This is the Baymawe podcast with Marty Salman. I'm his co-host Brent Billings.

Today I'm with L. Grover Fricks and we are joined by Mariko Clark, author of the Book of Belonging.

She is a mother and a storyteller and her time as an editor of National Geographic

learning enabled her to make complex topics

accessible and engaging.

She and her husband live outside of Indianapolis

with their three kids.

Mariko, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited to be here, So excited to chat with you guys.

But you're here. I'm so, so, so excited. You are here because the Book of

Belonging is coming out.

Friend can attest to the fact that finding excellent resources for kids can be really challenging. It's one of the top questions that

Bayhma gets is how can I try to communicate with my kids the stuff that I've been learning and how important the

text is and all of that and so we're so excited to be able to recommend the book

of belonging. to our to recommend to our listeners.

At least I do anyway, El Groverfrix, certainly death.

I am very excited. We do get this question all the time and my kids are now

three and five and so I'm in the thick of trying to engage this stuff with my kids as well.

So I'm personally experiencing the frustration of how little stuff is out there

and the popular stuff is like, oh, not great. So I'm so excited to have this as a resource as the

episode airs the book is not quite out yet but very very soon pre-orders are

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