Nelson is the illustrator of many beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books including, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Coretta Scott King and 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. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.ĭonna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. Wangari Muta Maathai has changed Kenya tree by tree-and with each page turned, children will realize their own ability to positively impact the future. Today more than 30 million trees have been planted throughout Mama Miti’s native Kenya, and in 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that has empowered many people to mobilize and combat deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental degradation. “A beautiful introduction for children just learning about the Greenbelt Movement.” - School Library JournalĬBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade BookĬCBC Choices (Cooperative Children’s Book Council) “Nelson’s ( We Are the Ship) breathtaking portraits of Maathai often have a beatific quality bright African textiles represent fields, mountains, and Maathai’s beloved trees.Napoli ( The Earth Shook) creates a vivid portrait of the community from which Maathai’s tree-planting mission grows.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This is, in a word, stunning.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape.

Mama Miti by Donna Jo Napoli