With a lyrical text and stunning multimedia art, this picture book is a must for every reader, both young and not so young." - Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Review Her grassroots efforts to help her people and the environment at the same time had a profound effect not only on Kenya, but on people all over the world who heard her story and who learned her lessons. "This is the true story of Wangari Muta Maathi, a Kenyan woman who helped to bring trees back to a sadly deforested country. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M.
Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Nelson's work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. 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 won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997.
Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories.
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