Amanda Seales is taking on anti-intellectualism, erasure, and climate change the most effective way known; TEACH THE BABIES! RaRa’s Radical Readers is a new edutaining adventure from the mind of the artistic intellectual, inviting kids, and adults alike, into a love of literature and the land! Every other episode, Ra Ra, a brilliant bespectacled ball of energy busts open and breaks down a children’s book that directly addresses themes ever present in our ever-changing landscape and sings an original song written/produced by Ms. Seales! I
mmigration, Racism, Palestine, ancestral identity are just a few topics, Ra Ra will touch on with her audience of radical readers! (you tired of exclamation points yet?!) Key objectives include enhancing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills, while modeling mindfulness and nurturing imagination as a tool for navigating life! On alternating episodes Ra Ra is facetimed by her Caribbean aunt, “Tanty Root”, a bold spirited and brightly dressed matriarch who loves to put her hands in the soil and swim in the sea! Tanty travels all over connecting the audience with folks from all walks of life that work with nature in a myriad of ways all focused on preserving humanity’s connection to it through education and care.
As a bonus, parents with Patreon subscriptions will be treated to an interview with the author of each book. Ra Ra’s Radical Readers is intergenerational programming, building bridges between both children and our inner children, to find wonderment in RaRa’s world that inspires us to utilize it in our own..