The second book we will be commenting on is a great book about a great woman. It is a true story based on the life of Wangari Maathai who is an African environmentalist and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. It is an example of how one person's passion and determination can inspire great change.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wangari's Trees of Peace
The second book we will be commenting on is a great book about a great woman. It is a true story based on the life of Wangari Maathai who is an African environmentalist and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. It is an example of how one person's passion and determination can inspire great change.
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i like the moutain whet you can see a lot of trees.i like when a girl planted trees.i did not like when people cut down the trees.
ReplyDeleteI like this book because the women stand tall when
ReplyDeletethe men cut the trees down.The women plant the
trees back and convince the men trees are a good
thing.
i would go buy it for a new book because it was a really good book and i likeit cause it's a true story and i likethe illustrations but i don't know if it was watercolors it takes place in africa and she planted 30 million trees of peace and i don't know why she got put in jail it was wierd.
ReplyDeleteWangaris Trees of peace
ReplyDeletei would like to go in that book.It was really was fun and really great story.And she planted butiful plants they where nice and still trees only when the wind blows.
I really liked the illustrations!!!
ReplyDeleteI think the pictures are made out of
scraps. I think!
one day a littel girl got in jail.
ReplyDeletefor planting treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees it
is stuped
I like the book because it was a good book. I did not the people because they aremean to the wome,n.the book was good to me.
ReplyDeleteitwususum sum wrintrsting
ReplyDeleteI think we sode have a lote of tres
ReplyDeleteSowe we can breth.
I really liked how wangari the kept planting
ReplyDeletetrees no matter if they kept cutting them
down.she got arested.
I would give this book a 1.I don 't
ReplyDeletelike this book because the police where hitting her with a bat and makeing her bleed. But I did like when she was planting trees.
I was in Nigerin my mom and my uncle
ReplyDeleteThay sad all the trees waer
in wangaris trees of peace my class thot it
ReplyDeletewas good.because we have a garden.
however we do not have trees in it.
I thout the trees would grow to oneday to oneday
ReplyDeleteto oneday. But insted trees grow fast.But The
story was a really good story to me because
the story was from Africa. And I,am from Africa
too. And the story had 30million woman in it.
But the woman got arrested because the woman
decided to still plant trees. Madelyn.
wangari /s trees of peace wangarl decided togrew 30 milliontrees. but she wint to
ReplyDeletejail in everyhing wint better.
I thought this story was good because planting trees is a wonderful WONDERFUL thing!with out trees we could't breath.and the pictures were GRAET!I think the illustrations were done with skrap and paint.I would love to buy that book from the store toreplace The Little Spiter.
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