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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
32 pp.
| Harcourt |
September, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-15-206545-4$17.00
(3)
K-3
This picture book biography celebrates Wangari Maathai, Nobel Prize–winning environmentalist and founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement. Winter's lyrical main text gives readers a sense of the woman ("Wangari lives under an umbrella of green trees..."); an appended author's note is more factual. The accompanying brightly patterned and cleanly composed acrylic illustrations beautifully display Maathai's spirit and determination.