Description
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founding father of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as increasingly more land was once cleared, Kenya was once transformed. When Wangari returned home from college in The usa, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she on my own bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?
Bill McKibben, creator of The End of Nature, says: “Wangari Maathai’s epic story has never been told better―everyone who reads this book will need to plant a tree!”
With glowing watercolor illustrations and lyrical prose, Claire Nivola tells the remarkable story of one woman’s effort to change the fate of her land by teaching many to handle it. An creator’s note provides further details about Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement. Consistent with the theme of the story, the book is printed on recycled paper.