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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya Paperback - 2010

by Napoli, Donna Jo

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Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Napoli and Nelson tell the story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Full color.

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  • Title Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
  • Author Napoli, Donna Jo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, New York
  • Date 2010-01-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR008192439
  • ISBN 9781416935056 / 1416935053
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.36 x 9.44 x 0.41 in (31.39 x 23.98 x 1.04 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 610
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Maathai, Wangari, Tree planters (Persons) - Kenya
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008023604
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

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 Miti’s 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 tree—and with each page turned, children will realize their own ability to positively impact the future.

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media reviews



"This is the true story of Wangari Muta Maathi, a Kenyan woman who helped to bring trees back to a sadly deforested country. Her grassroots efforts to help her people and the environment at the same time had a profound effect not only on Kenya, but on people all over the world who heard her story and who learned her lessons. With a lyrical text and stunning multimedia art, this picture book is a must for every reader, both young and not so young." -- Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Review

Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2010, Page 88
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 02/01/2010, Page 0
  • Ebony, 04/01/2010, Page 102
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 12/01/2009, Page 0
  • Multicultural Review, 12/01/2010, Page 72
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/07/2009, Page 46
  • School Library Journal, 02/01/2010, Page 101

About the author

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. Nelson's 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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