mama miti wangari maathai and the trees of kenya

“Luminous illustrations are the highlight of this third recent picture-book biography of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmental activist who received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. “A beautiful introduction for children just learning about the Greenbelt Movement.” * “Nelson’s ( We Are the Ship) breathtaking portraits of Maathai often have a beatific quality bright African textiles represent fields, mountains, and Maathai’s beloved trees… Napoli ( The Earth Shook) creates a vivid portrait of the community from which Maathai’s tree-planting mission grows.” * “Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape…. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Nelson’s work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories.

Mama miti wangari maathai and the trees of kenya