Joining us today is Joseth Howell, and she is an educator, scientist, writer, and college admissions consultant with a deep passion for helping students get into college, the college of their dreams through her work at Ivy essay and more.

And we're going to find out about that in just a little bit.

But the reason she's with us today is she's also an author who has recently released a new book, and that book is called Water Wonderful World.

Joseph, thank you so much for being with us.

Tell us about this book.

Thank you so much for having me on our program today.

What a wonderful world.

It's a fascinating, visually stimulating, fact filled book that engages readers, introduces them to the fascinating world and site of water and its importance in sustaining life and our ecosystem.

So, you said there's a, an interesting story behind the name of the book.

Can you tell us how you came up with the name?

Sure.

I went through several, options for that, for the product and decided the name of the book.

Some of them include that.

Water wonderful, wonderful world.

And, water wonderful world stuck.

It felt just right because of its global and compassion.

Nature.

I, I loved the alliteration of the W's, water wonderful world.

You know, but I also like the fact that in, in, in given my background as an American and Jamaican nigerian I liked how water, sounded like what sounds like water.

And have you ever been to Jamaica?

And, that it's it's it's it's it's like it's water is, it's sounds that way in Jamaican patois or Creole.

And that's a language to become popular is a form of English that is spoken in Jamaica and throughout the Jamaican diaspora, with West African influences and, and the idea of there two that tied together in.

But when, when when you combine water with the rest of the other titles in my book, it transforms into What a Wonderful World, which is a song, a title song sung by American composer, Louis Armstrong.

I really loved how that that song itself to captured, you know, just really speaks about the beauty of nature and and water.

The natural resource is it's indispensable to our lives.

And it's, it's something that, That would make our lives impossible to live.

A world impossible to be the way it is today.

So it just really fits in nicely.

Now, that that's a beautiful story.

And I love how you could connect water and how water connects all of us.

And with your, rich background that's so evident.

And so let's find out a little before we get more into the book, let's find out a little bit more about you.

What is your background?

Why, this interest in water and, and writing a book about it.

Great.

question there.

So the rest of the book came out of my experience with homeschool, my children.

I homeschooled them.

I read read countless number of books, and I felt something was missing.

But I also knew I wanted to, at that point, contribute to the, you know, body of children's literature.

I wanted to book a science book that was not just filled with fun facts, but one that was experiential, like, I feel science goals it should be, should be more than just theories.

It's something that a reader can connect to.

It's it's best learned when it's when you can connect to it.

And so I decided to write about write write a book, I wrote it, I took a unique approach because I wrote it in Project Flair.

Water has a way of enabling readers connect with the material, and therefore enhancing comprehension and mastery of concepts.

But it also in a research shows that poetry also helps in our recollection of material recall of material and memory and memory.

So again, if we can connect to what we read, we're able been able to remember it and also apply it.

So that's how that topic, that's how it came about.

One thing I forgot to mention, I think it's interesting thing you'll find you'll find interesting here is, because the alliteration of the W's in that in the title, I is a playful nod to the World Wide Web.

The three W's there, and I feel like it ties everything together in a meaningful, modern way.

That's very cool.

And I think you're right that poetry does, tend to grab a hold of us and help us retain information and and retain feeling about things, and, so that's really cool that that's, the way that you chose to express stuff.

Now, I think some of your background, you have degrees from Columbia, University as well as Rutgers, and you're a scientist, so you have a wealth of information.

Is is that kind of the, direction of your education?

Water or other natural things?

So I'm a biochemist by training.

So in biochemistry, you studied the body.

Is that you look at how chemical reactions by work in upper in the school system.

And water again is very fundamental to that.

We are human life.

Human beings are 7% water our brains about.

So the majority of that is water.

So we it's, it's an indispensable compound, that it's integral to, to, to life.

And in our interaction with our ecosystems.

So we need the, the plants utilize, water through the process of photosynthesis to make food that we consume and that they need for energy, too.

And in that whole process for this, this this is this is oxygen that's important for us human beings to, you know, conduct, utilize and make in many compounds that our bodies need to sustain life.

So it's like at night, like I feel like training and the whole school experience educate as an educator as well.

Really?

Give me that confidence in writing this book.

Okay.

Now, let's get into the book a little bit more.

What are some of the themes that people will explore in the book?

And you've done a great job of not just having information, but, like you said, using poetry, but also some stunning visuals.

So, so how did you, get the visuals to go along with the information that you provide?

I felt, again, that pictures should complement the science that we read.

And I wanted to be able I wanted to showcase water in all these forms.

You know, I think look at the waterfalls, for instance.

And this fascinated, you know, you're all you can't help but being in awe of, of water and the nature and force of water.

So the what, what how like the pictures, I did a little research to determine what pictures would stand out and connect and wow.

Or read the reader, especially minds, you know, online read the book.

And that would help help once they have a the materials take more.

And so I have pictures of waterfalls or even a drop of water, under a leaf.

Water is a, you know, in water fountains or geysers.

Shoot it up high into the, up into into the sky.

So there were different ways that I manifested what I wanted to be manifested and showcased.

But I also think that water I also know so many other topics that we have.

I have the book is, what is the work talked about?

Water cycle.

Again, it's like I said earlier, water is involved in a lot of physical changes and reactions and chemical reactions that occur in nature all around us, whether it's change in the different state.

So the water cycle we have, you have water changing from a liquid state to the gas, a state that back to solid and liquid as snow in this part of the world, snow and rain.

And that whole cycle continues again in maintaining our ecosystem.

That's a physical change.

And and readers will find it fascinating.

Then but water also all the water involved in chemical changes and, and its chemical position been H2O.

So that book the book also talks about the chemical composition of water.

What we we, we readers will explore and find fascinating facts about water habitat.

Water sustains life in our, you know, in marine life, for instance, and marine plants that grow around water or in water.

So there are topics there.

But in in the geography, your readers will also find very fascinating facts around the world.

You know, again, I wrote this book with a global lens.

I get I feel water.

That's one sense that connects everyone, regardless of where you're you're live, where you're from or what.

Like you speak, it connects us.

So I want to I want to readers around the world, who can, you know, to be able to relate to it?

So it showcases how people use water, in different parts of the world.

For what?

It's enjoyment, recreation or different things that you do with.

What are your daily lives?

So that book.

So I think readers will find a geography, that it explores two very fascinating.

It has the book has an interesting fact, from every habitable continent.

So readers around the world will learn that want to learn something about where to live, but about other places in the world we live in a very, global village now.

So it's it's really important that we are connected and appreciate life around us.

Well, that's that's very neat.

And in addition to all of that, there are some activities included in the book as well.

Right?

Definitely.

Right, right.

So I have I think food water should be, should be something that is not just taught that you can you should experience it.

So there you, you have their games, water games.

That's great for family.

And then go to family.

If you have children or young readers and older readers, can, experience learning together.

So through what you're playing the water games or you're learning about your experience in water, the force of water and gravity, how gravity enables water to rise and fall.

So there is there is a water game there.

But I so I think I also think just like what it brings things in nature alive, with colors.

There's also, an activity about how and how water can help, can be used in creative art.

So you can experiment.

Readers can, you know, create your own masterpiece with, and what, what an art.

And that is our traditional science experiments that you and know the readers can do at home or even or even the traditional classroom environment as well.

That, I think, is a great compliment for teachers.

In a traditional setting, classroom setting, or at home schooling, parents.

So really, really the base is there.

Yeah.

Yeah, it really does.

So where can people get a copy?

People can find a book on my website w WW that Ivy essay and more forward slash products in WWW dot Ivy essay and more.com forward slash products and on Amazon as well.

Very good.

And we'll have a link to that on our website as well.

Real quickly here before, we run out of time.

One of the things is you're also a founder of, an organization that helps people prepare, their college essays so they can get into the school of their dreams.

Can you tell me a little bit about that organization, Ivy Essay and more?

Sure.

So I the essay and more, is an affirm that helps families work with families and students to help them build a compelling and, student profile so that they can go to whatever school they want to go to.

We work with students to not just help them build a solid academic, profile through your work, through, determining, such the kind of passage to take throughout for middle school, through high school.

I feel, you know, we we we know that from the research that if students have a very strong foundation, at the beginning, that they're they tend to do very well.

So we're working with students, were coaching them on how to build a strong foundation starting in middle school.

So like time to get to your freshman year in high school.

It's something as part of their DNA.

It's become part of a common, common practice and that we help them in that at a time in determining what kind of classes to take in, that they find passion projects that come up that are kind of perfect when you're talking to a commissioner's admissions officer, and when you're writing your personal statements and supplemental essay.

So we we also offer editorial support and strategy in working with students throughout that supplemental essay and personal writing process.

When when it comes time to apply to school.

But leading up to that, that that's the build up to the application process.

We're helping to build the students again through tutoring, and just enabling them to quickly determine what kind of classes to take, how to do well, how to manage your time, how to stay organized, what activities, and to to to engage in, in school, how to leverage your summers to so I it has that's so I think is impactful and and lends to them being authentic in their application process.

Well Joseth thank you so much for one sharing the book with us but also sharing some time.

And they can find out more about, Ivy essay and more at your website and we'll have that on the screen as well and link to it on our website.

But thank you so much and best of luck with the new book.

Thank you so much, Kelsey.

really appreciate your time this morning.