similar reading project at our school here in the Congo - I have found=20
the following interesting triplet of books suitable for a school-wide rea=
d:
K to 4
http://www.amazon.com/Wangaris-Trees-Peace-Story-Africa/dp/0152065458/ref=
=3Dpd_bxgy_b_text_c
Ages 9-12=20
http://www.amazon.com/Planting-Trees-Kenya-Wangari-Maathai/dp/0374399182/=
ref=3Dpd_sim_b_2
Older kids and adults
http://www.amazon.com/Unbowed-Memoir-Vintage-Wangari-Maathai/dp/030727520=
5/ref=3Dsr_1_3?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Dbooks&qid=3D1260436350&sr=3D1-3
These all concern the life and work of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. =20
Here is the review of the last of the books from Booklist:
*Starred Review* The mother of three, the first woman in East and=20
Central Africa to earn a doctorate, and the first African woman to=20
receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai of Kenya understands how=20
the good earth sustains life both as a biologist and as a Kikuyu woman=20
who, like generations before her, grew nourishing food in the rich soil=20
of Kenya's central highlands. In her engrossing and eye-opening memoir,=20
a work of tremendous dignity and rigor, Maathai describes the paradise=20
she knew as a child in the 1940s, when Kenya was a "lush, green,=20
fertile" land of plenty, and the deforested nightmare it became.=20
Discriminated against as a female university professor, Maathai has=20
fought hard for women's rights. And it was women she turned to when she=20
undertook her mission to restore Kenya's decimated forests, launching=20
the Green Belt Movement and providing women with work planting trees.=20
Maathai's ingenious, courageous, and tenacious activism led to arrests,=20
beatings, and death threats, and yet she and her tree-planting followers=20
remained unbowed. Currently Kenya's deputy minister for the environment=20
and natural resources, Nobel laureate, visionary, and hero, Maathai has=20
restored humankind's innate if nearly lost knowledge of the intrinsic=20
connection between thriving, wisely managed ecosystems and health,=20
justice, and peace. Donna Seaman
Copyright =A9 American Library Association.
Brad Waugh wrote:
> My english-teaching spouse suggests /Naomi's Road /for younger=20
> students and /Obasan/ for older readers (both by Joy Kogawa - same=20
> autobiographical story, different levels). She also suggests /The=20
> Little Prince/ which has only the one version but is accessible (and=20
> meaningful) to all.
>
> Brad
>
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