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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/76416622 Title: Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai Author: Claire A Nivola Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008 + ISBN/ISSN: 9780374399184 0374399182 OCLC:76416622

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Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai

Author:	Claire A Nivola
Publisher:	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008 +
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Jacket.

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Genre/Form:	Biography Curriculum resource picture books Picture books Literature Biographies Juvenile works Dust jackets (Binding) Livres d'images Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Nivola, Claire A. Planting the trees of Kenya. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008 + (China : South China Printing Co. Ltd.) (OCoLC)760166951
Named Person:	Wangari Maathai; Wangari Maathai; Wangari Maathai; Wangari Maathai
Material Type:	Biography, Juvenile audience
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Claire A Nivola Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780374399184 0374399182
OCLC Number:	76416622
Notes:	"Frances Foster books."
Awards:	Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009 Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2009 Jane Addams Childrenâs Book Award, 2009
Target Audience:	1030
Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Responsibility:	Claire A. Nivola.
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"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Jacket.

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A nice addition to any library

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2009-11-05) Good

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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 but few Americans know about this fascinating women who founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. This is a beautiful picture book/biography that will be a welcome addition to school libraries. It can be used in many...
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Kenya's rejuvenation from Wangari Maathai

by elfgreen (WorldCat user published 2009-01-07) Excellent

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Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, grew up on a farm with trees and fish filling the streams. She left Africa to attend an American college to study biology. After five years, Wangari returned to Kenya and saw how damaged Kenya’s landscape was; most noticeably was the almost treeless land to create more farms. Wangari realized that the people had forgotten to care for the land in order for the land to tend the people. The women blamed others; Wangari stressed, “When we see that we are part of the problem, we can become part of the solution.” She realized a simple but grand plan: plant trees. Her plan required hard work and depended on the women to carry out the plan not the government or a lengthy education. She began the planting thirty years ago and has planted thirty million trees in Kenya. The author’s note has further details about this amazing woman; the watercolor illustrations provide a folk-art and vast perspective to this brief biography. The concise text would be a good read-aloud for second or third grade students but middle school students could also read to begin studying this inspirational woman.

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