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Chargement... Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Treespar Franck Prévot
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is the third picture book biography of Wangari Maathai in the last few years. It's fine, and the illustrations are lovely. However (and, as always), I wish that the author had incorporated the six pages of backmatter into the main text of the book. As it is, it doesn't add much to the other two biographies already in existence. This book is the first time out of the three books I've read about Wangri that I hear of the mother giving her a garden. I found that fact very interesting, and if true why did the other books. not mention it? In addition, I never read about Wangari's father or brother. This particular book about Wangari goes more in depth to her family around her. Also going around and doing motivational speeches to get the villages on the same page about planting trees were shown in two of the tree books. Overall this book was an okay read. This book is so beautiful! Fronty is a beautiful painter and illustrator. Every page is covered in so much color and a range of hyper detail to smudged innuendos. In addition to the art, Wangari's story is so inspiring. We hear about experience from her birth in 1940 all the way through 2002 when she is elected to parliament. The text in the novel is factual and full of explanation but does not have the drowning tone that many non fictions books can have. It can get a little preachy when talking about off her accomplishments and how much she must over come etc etc but really her story is worth the hype. What is also very nice about this book is that there is a whole informational section in the back with a timeline and real photos, along with where Kenya is currently. Maps, quotes, and further information on forests in general. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her efforts to lead women in a nonviolent struggle to bring peace and democracy to Africa through its reforestation. Her organization planted over thirty million trees in thirty years. This beautiful picture book tells the story of an amazing woman and an inspiring idea. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Originally published in French as Wangari Maathai, La femme qui plante des millions d'arbres, this is the fifth picture-book biography of Wangari Maathai that I have read, following upon Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson's Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya, Jeanette Winter's Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, Claire A. Nivola's Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai and Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynne Sadler's Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World. I am glad that I bothered to track it down, despite having read all of the foregoing titles, as it is, without a doubt, the best of the lot. The illustrations from Aurélia Fronty are absolutely gorgeous - beautiful color palette, fascinating stylized trees, an interesting overall visual composition on each page - but then, the artwork in many of these other titles is also lovely. No, what sets Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees apart from its counterparts is that it gives a much fuller account of its subject's life, touching upon the realities of colonialism when Maathai was young, the fact that she was imprisoned multiple times for her activism, and the fact that her behavior was considered atypical for women, in her culture. The portrait created here for young readers is a much richer one, I think, than that available in the four American picture-books mentioned above, and I am glad therefore, that it was translated. Recommended to picture-book readers who enjoy biography, or who are interested in environmental activism and/or stories of inspirational people. ( )