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 Be taught to Be Courageous.”
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 Courageous,” on Oct. 25. The image e book “I Can Be taught to Be Courageous,” with illustrations by Holly Hatam, is scheduled for the summer time of 2026.
“Day by day, kids and adolescents face challenges that require nice braveness — from taking their first steps to strolling by the doorways of a brand new college. With these books I hope to remind younger readers that studying to be courageous is solely a part of life,” Budde stated in a press release. “The method entails taking dangers, making errors, asking for assist, and slowly gaining competence in no matter as soon as felt unimaginable. We by no means cease studying to be courageous, and a few of our most formative experiences happen once we are younger.”
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’ve got felt the providential hand of a loving God,” she stated. “Within the identify of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the individuals in our nation who’re scared now.”
In feedback later posted on social media, Trump referred to as her a “Radical Left laborious line Trump hater.”
Budde’s “How We Be taught to Be Courageous” was first revealed in 2023, nevertheless it attracted wider consideration after the January service.
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