Book Review : Children's Picture Book
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
by Jen Cullerton Johnson; illustrations by Sonia Lynn Sadler
Grade 2–4—This entry on Wangari Maathai takes a slightly more comprehensive look at her life than several other recent books. Her deep love of nature and her determination, first to get an education and later to save the environment and ultimately the people of Kenya, are discussed. Foreign business interests and the duplicity of "corrupt police" forced her first into prison, then politics, and ultimately into spreading her message to the wider world. The book closes as she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. An afterword adds more detail on the Green Belt Movement. Vivid colors sparkle from within the thick white outlines in the batik-style illustrations that fill the pages.
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Lee & Low Books. New York, NY; www.leeandlow.com; 40 pages, hardcover; $18.95 (May2010) ISBN-10: 160060367X
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