Brave Books is taking the world by storm with their children’s books, joining forces with conservative thought leaders, activists, politicians, and social media influencers to seed conservative values and concepts to the next generation.
Dinesh and Debbie D’Souza are the latest conservative thought leaders to add their voices to the Brave Books Saga. The D’Souzas are partnering with Brave Books in their newest Saga 2 story, Freedom Day The Asher WayThis book is about Socialism’s evils as well the benefits and freedom of the capitalist system. Released on August 1, Brave Books is offering this title as their “Book of the Month.”
In an interview with RedState, Dinesh joked that Brave Books ambushed he and Debbie and held them hostage until they agreed to write a book, but the truth of the matter is that both the D’Souzas are appropriately suited to the Brave Books platform. He is a widely-respected scholar, author, award-winning filmmaker, and policy analyst.
Debbie is Hispanic-American immigrant. Her mother is Mexican-American and her father is Venezuelan. She is determined that her Latina and Latino friends learn the value of supporting conservative principles. Not a party that has repeatedly betrayed community, family and traditional Hispanic values.
Debbie, a former K-12 teacher, is familiar with the idea of teaching principles, character and values to children through storytelling.
“I’m a former school teacher,” Debbie revealed. “I’ve taught kindergarten through 12th grade and so it came very natural to me to want to do a children’s book, and I thought it was a, you know, a pretty cute and easy concept. So, that’s where the idea came for me to co-author it.”
But the subject matter stems from Dinesh’s latest book, United States of SocialismThe book, which is clearly written for adults, was called. It is difficult to distill a Socialism worldview into manageable chunks that can be understood by a third grader.
“You’re not going to introduce them ideologically to Socialism, but Socialism travels under the banner of a “Fairness,” Dinesh explained.
“This is fairYou know that everyone should have an. Equal share. The Socialist government should have the ability to bring down prices if they are excessive. This is why you would charge such a high price.
“So, two of the Socialist concepts, which is one: what’s fair? And the second one: we’ll call it ‘price fixing.’
“You know they’re elaborated in my book for adults, but I think what was ingenious about Brave is they’ve helped us to craft a story that took these ideas and brought them down to the level of kids.
It’s a simplified version that tells the story in a way that kids can understand, but also find amusing and entertaining.”
Debbie elaborated on these points from the point of view of how children learn.
“Well, you know children, children learn through play and they also learn through storybooks, so even though the concept of Socialism itself is a little bit too high level for them, they know a little bit about fairness.
“They know right from wrong at probably the age of five.
“They can, they know that if somebody takes their toy away, it’s not a fair thing for them to do, and so this concept is created so that children start seeing the effects of being fair and not being fair. I believe that they will understand Socialism when they reach the age of 10, maybe 12.
“In this case we want to point out that it hurts people.”
Stories rule the world, and while they are one of the primary ways that children learn, in adults it’s how we understand life and the world around us. When I was young, stories were my addiction. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Aesop’s FablesGreek and Roman Mythology. It is amazing to see these stories reinterpreted and integrated into modern narratives as an adult.
As Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
It is a strategy that the Left knows and uses well. This strategy has been used by the Right to instill conservative values and truth into young people. With the Left’s perpetual indoctrination steeped into our educational systems and libraries, the Right has some catching up to do, and Brave Books is allied with our best storytellers: the conservative influencers, activists, and thought leaders who are already speaking to the issues of the day, in order to punch down and break through to the next generation.
Freedom Day: The Asher Way follows Asher, who is determined to create the best Freedom Day ever—even though he’s running low on funds. Asher attempts to manipulate the market to lower prices, but he soon discovers the truth that both buyers and sellers are best served by the free market.
“I think it’s important to have this type of conservative children book,” Debbie said.
“The Liberals are really making end roads with children’s books. In fact, I heard the other day that there’s a book called Jack (not Jackie), it’s a transgender children’s book. So, we’ve got to take back our culture, we’ve got to take back our children, and by doing more books like this type of book, I think, is very important for our young. And as I said, when I was a teacher, I felt it very important that children learned moral values and they just aren’t being taught anymore.”
“So, parents have to take that type of teaching in their own hands and so, by subscribing to Brave Books, I think it’s a great way to do that.”
This was Dinesh’s final thought.
“In earlier decades, the problem we had to deal with was Relativism, which is the Left essentially saying, you know, who’s to say what’s true or who’s to say what’s right?” Dinesh explained.
“But now we’re dealing with the active promulgation of a kind of anti-morality.
“So, the Left is promoting open perversity. And so, this is a much more serious assault than merely saying, “we don’t know where morals come from,” or “different people each determine for themselves their own morality.”
This is the kind of stuff that we debated and worried about and argued about in the ‘90s and early 2000s, but it’s now where our cultural debate is today.”
Brave Books refuses to give up on this discussion to the Left. Brave Books launched in 2021. Since then, they have reached more than a hundred thousand homes through their picture books. Now, Brave Books is looking to increase their reach by launching several other projects. There are currently plans for board books and novels for tweens and teens. A podcast and animated TV series are being discussed, along with rumors of a Podcast for Parents about raising children within a hostile, Leftist culture.
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