To help prepare for World Book Day, our Home Learning teaching resource is available FREE. Mama Miti is part biography, part fiction part Sunday morning sermon, part ecology lecture part Dr. Wangari Maathai and her work to stop deforestization in the East African country of Kenya. Today more than 30 million trees have been.
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees by Franck Prévot, illustrated by Aurélia Fronty, translated from French by Dominique Clément (9781580896276), Charlesbridge, USA £6.99 Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and The Trees of Kenya is a fictionalized account of the early childhood of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Dr. 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. Wangari’s Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter (9780152065454), Harcourt, USA £11.99 Donna Jo Napoli brings out the healing and useful properties of different kinds of trees, incorporating their Kikuyu names. Wangari Maathai’s life story has inspired several authors and illustrators and the way they portray it varies in approach and emphasis. Rather than provide them with a quickfix that is merely palliative. Recently, Maathai visited Chicago, as Judy. Mama Miti seems to know exactly what seed to give each person who comes to her for help. This picture book describes the life of Wangari Maathai, who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in encouraging the planting of forests in Kenya and creating the Green Belt movement, contributing to sustainable development and democracy. Wangari Maathai is a conservationist whose movement has caused the planting of 30 million trees in Kenya and also helped lead to free elections. Resources for National Writing Day 2022.ALCS Resources on Copyright in the Classroom.
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