Semillas de Cambio: Sembrando Un Camino Hacia La Paz (Spanish Edition)

by Jen Cullerton Johnson (Author) Sonia Lynn Sadler (Illustrator)

Semillas de Cambio: Sembrando Un Camino Hacia La Paz (Spanish Edition)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations - American Library Association (ALA)

Una biografía ilustrada de la científica Wangari Maathai, la primera mujer africana (y la primera ambientalista) en ganar el Premio Nobel de la Paz por su trabajo sembrando árboles en su Kenia natal.

A picture book biography of scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman--and first environmentalist--to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her work planting trees in her native Kenya.

Cuando era niña en Kenia, a Wangari le enseñaron a respetar la naturaleza. Creció amando la tierra, las plantas y los animales que la rodeaban, desde los gigantescos árboles mugumo que su pueblo, Kikuyu, veneraban hasta los diminutos renacuajos que nadaban en el río.

Aunque la mayoría de las niñas kenianas no recibieron educación, a Wangari, curiosa y trabajadora, se le permitió ir a la escuela. Allí su mente brotó como una semilla. Destacó en las ciencias y continuó sus estudios en los Estados Unidos. Después de regresar a casa, Wangari abrió un camino a través de Kenia, utilizando su conocimiento y compasión para promover los derechos de sus compatriotas y ayudar a salvar la tierra, un árbol a la vez.

Semillas de cambio: Sembrando un camino hacia la paz le da vida a la historia poderosa de Wangari Maathai, la primera mujer africana y ambientalista en ganar un Premio Nobel de la Paz. Una narrativa cautivadora e imágenes vibrantes pintan un retrato sólido de esta inspiradora defensora de la tierra y de los derechos de las mujeres.

 

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Starred Review

Maathai always wears a colorful headscarf or fabric bow, and the community spirit she resuscitates is joyfully celebrated on every spread. Vibrant and accomplished.

Publishers Weekly

A more thorough investigation of Maathai's life... Throughout the book runs the image of the Kikuyu people's sacred mugumo tree as the source of Maathai's tree-planting project, an idea 'as small as a seed but as tall as a tree that reaches for the sky.

School Library Journal

This entry on Wangari Maathai takes a slightly more comprehensive look at her life than several other recent books... Vivid colors sparkle from within the thick white outlines in the batik-style illustrations that fill the pages.

ALA/Booklist

Sadler's bright mixed-media art, reminiscent of Ashley Bryan's work with its white outlines and rainbow-hued shapes, reinforces the sense of a depleted land growing green again and the presence, even in bustling city scenes, of a vibrant natural world.

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John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations - American Library Association (ALA)

Amelia Bloomer Book List - American Library Association (ALA)
Great Lakes Great Books Award Nominee - Michigan Reading Association
Green Earth Book Award Honor - The Nature Generation
Notable Books for a Global Society - International Literacy Association (ILA)
Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards - Northland College
United Women in Faith Reading Program - United Methodist Women
Young Hoosier Book Award - Indiana Library Federation

Jen Cullerton Johnson

Jen Cullerton Johnson is a writer, an educator, and an environmentalist with master's degrees in nonfiction writing and curriculum development. She teaches at both the elementary and college levels in Chicago, where she also conducts writing workshops. Johnson can be found online at jencullertonjohnson.com.

Sonia Sadler was an illustrator and a fine artist who focused on depicting the cultures, lives, and stories of peoples of African descent. Her book, Seeds of Change, earned her a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Her unique style drew inspiration from quilts and employed a variety of techniques and mediums--from watercolor to scratchboard. She passed away in September 2013.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781643797410
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Publication date
October 15, 2024
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF007110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF038010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Africa
Library of Congress categories
Kenya
Tree planters (Persons)
Green Belt Movement (Society: Kenya)
Women conservationists
Women politicians
Women's rights
Nobel Prize winners
Women Nobel Prize winners
Environmental conditions
Maathai, Wangari

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