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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Contributor(s): Napoli, Donna Jo (Author), Nelson, Kadir (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 1416935053     ISBN-13: 9781416935056
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2008023604
Age Level: 4-8
Grade Level: PreK-3
Lexile Measure: 610 AD (Adult Directed Text)
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 9.44" W x 12.36" L (1.10 lbs) 40 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee, Picture Book, 2012
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/07/2009 pg. 46
Kirkus Review - Children 12/01/2009
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2010
School Library Journal 02/01/2010 pg. 101
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 88
Ebony 04/01/2010 pg. 102
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Multicultural Review 12/01/2010 pg. 72
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 135593
Reading Level: 4.5   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
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 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Nelson, Kadir: - 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 is the illustrator of many beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books including, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Coretta Scott King and Robert F. Sibert Award; Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal; and Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya by Donna Jo Napoli called "stunning" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's Salt in His Shoes and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Please, Baby, Please and Please, Puppy, Please. Kadir Nelson lives in Los Angeles.Napoli, Donna Jo: - 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.
 
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