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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

English

By (author): Donna Jo Napoli

Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson

NAACP Image Award Nominee

In a word, stunning. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as Mama Miti, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that has empowered many people to mobilize and combat deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental degradation.

Today, more than 30 million trees have been planted throughout Mama Mitis native Kenya, and in 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Muta Maathai has changed Kenya tree by treeand with each page turned, children will realize their own ability to positively impact the future. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 508g
  • Dimensions: 229 x 305mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 5-7
  • ISBN13: 9781416935056

About Donna Jo Napoli

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. 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 is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications institutions art galleries and museums. Nelsons work has won the Coretta Scott King Award the Robert F. Sibert Award two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. 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. Jordan; and many more. Kadir lives in Los Angeles.

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