pickBeautiful book about Mama Miti, a woman who helped other women and families by planting trees and sharing knowledge about trees.
#FoodandLit Kenya
TheBookHippie I loved this. 2y
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (with audio recording) | 
pickBeautiful book about Mama Miti, a woman who helped other women and families by planting trees and sharing knowledge about trees.
#FoodandLit Kenya
“Thayu nyumba- peace, my people”
pickWonderful story about a woman who helped people in need from all over by planting trees. This book has beautifully detailed illustrations that are very colorful and include a lot of patterns that make the focus picture pop. Learn about African culture and vocabulary.
pickKicking off Sept w a nonfiction pic book about Wangari Maathai for #foodandlit #kenya. In my opinion, the most interesting info about her is only included in the afterword. The way it is it reads almost more like a folk tale than contemporary nonfiction, so to know how impressive she was requires a conversation with young readers. Thank said, I think it will appeal to young readers the way it‘s written. The cadence & art are both very beautiful.
And when women from her own village came, lamenting that the water in her stream was too dirty to drink, Wangari told her plant mukuyu, the giant sacred fig, the drinker of water, which acts as nature's filter to clean streams.
This book really captures the spirit of the African culture, specifically the Kenyan notion of harambee (swahili) which means pulling together for the common good. I really enjoyed the oil painting illustrations which brilliantly captured the villager's clothing and the green landscape.
pickThis book describes the Green Belt Movement which started in Kenya by Wangari Muta Maathai who was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for working to revitalize a deforested Kenya. This book tells the story as if Wangari is a town elder who gives advice to women who travel from all over the country for her help. She becomes known as Mama Miti which means the mother of trees.
“The woman and her children returned home and planted trees with their strong hands”
I enjoyed the detailed illustrations of this book.
pickI enjoyed reading this story about Wangari. She was a lady who changed a country tree by tree. She taught all of her people wisdom of nature and planting of trees.
I really like the illustrations and how each page has a picture along with the words
so-so-nonfiction
This is an easy read with short paragraphs. There are tough vocabulary words in this book though. Would be a great read for 2nd-5th grade
