Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When Wangari returned home from college in America, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, says:...
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cl...
When a mouse named Emmaline takes up residence behind the wainscoting of Emily Dickinson's bedroom, she wonders what it is that keeps Emily scribbling at her writing table throughout the day and into the night. Emmaline sneaks a look, and finds that it's poetry Inspired, Emmaline writes her own first poem and secretly deposits it on Emily's desk. Emily answers with another poem, and a lively exchange begins. In this charming and fanciful introduction to Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Spires demonstrates the power of poetry to express our deepest...
A mouse's-eye-view of Emily Dickinson
When a mouse named Emmaline takes up residence behind the wainscoting of Emily Dickinson's bedroom, she...
"Mutter der Bäume" wird die Kenianerin Wangari Maathai genannt, die den Frauen ihres Landes beibrachte, ihr Land wieder aufzuforsten. 30 Millionen Bäume wurden durch sie neu gepflanzt. 2004 erhielt sie als erste Afrikanerin den Friedensnobelpreis. Claire A. Nivola erzählt in fließender Sprache und leuchtenden Aquarellbildern die einzigartige Geschichte dieser Frau. Ein wunderschönes Buch, das zeigt, wie jeder dabei mithelfen kann, die Erde zu pflegen und zu erhalten.
"Mutter der Bäume" wird die Kenianerin Wangari Maathai genannt, die den Frauen ihres Landes beibrachte, ihr Land wieder aufzuforsten. 30 Millionen BÃ...
"Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . "
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the statue, thanks to Emma's poem, came to define us as a nation that welcomes immigrants. The text of that now famous poem, "The New Colossus," appears in this free-verse biography, illustrated in an exquisite folk art style. The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus has...
"Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . "
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of ...
