What is it about?
This article examines how five picturebook biographies on Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, encourage environmental awareness in children. As such, it focuses on the visual and verbal strategies used in children's picture books to convey the significance of tree planting to social, political, and environmental health in Kenya.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because its examination of five picturebook biographies reveals the importance of a charismatic story, such as Maathai's, to global environmental education.
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This page is a summary of: ‘Information and Inspiration’: Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement and Eco-Children's Literature, International Research in Children s Literature, July 2016, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/ircl.2016.0180.
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