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The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
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About The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees To Feed Families
Product Description Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Association Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction, Honor Book, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Notable Children's Book, Smithsonian Best Children's Books of the Year, Outstanding Title, Bank Street College of Education The fascinating story of Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped a small African village become self-sustaining by planting a forest of mangrove trees to reshape the community's ecosystem. Now in paperback! For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. And it all started with some special trees. These are the trees, Mangrove trees, That were planted by the sea. With alternating verse and prose passages, The Mangrove Tree invites readers to discover how Dr. Sato's mangrove tree-planting project transformed an impoverished village into a self-sufficient community. This fascinating story is a celebration of creativity, hard work-and all those mangrove trees that were planted by the sea! Review * "Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore's The Mangrove Tree describes how these trees were planted by local women--earning them much needed income--while the leaves from the mangrove trees feed Hargigo's sheep and goats. . . photographs of Dr. Sato and the Hargigo community at work illustrate this stunning book." -- School Library Journal, starred review * "This moving depiction of ecological innovation centers on a project spearheaded by Dr. Gordon Sato to plant mangrove trees. . . . Graceful prose alternates with cumulative verse to relay the benefits that the trees provided for the community. . . . Resembling papier-mâché, Trumbore's textural mixed-media collages become increasingly lively as the new ecosystem flourishes. An extensive afterword, containing many photographs of Sato and the people of Hargigo, brings their hopeful story into sharp focus." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Hitting home hard is the project's simple practicality: no high-tech, no great infusions of capital or energy--in a word, motivating, in the best possible way." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is a special children's book. It is a story, a poem, and a biography celebrating one man's vision and human triumph over poverty, hunger and global climate change. The Mangrove Tree is richly illustrated by Susan L. Roth, with layer upon layer of colorful collage work. Co-written by Cindy Trumbore, The Mangrove Tree is a wonderful read-aloud for preschool to primary school ages and a useful resource for school reports." -- The Bookshelf Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Association Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction, Honor Book, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Notable Children's Book, Smithsonian Best Children's Books of the Year, Outstanding Title, Bank Street College of Education Eureka! Award, Gold Winner, California Reading Association About the Author Susan L. Roth's vibrant, unique, mixed-media collage illustrations have appeared in numerous outstanding picture books, including Parrots Over Puerto Rico, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal; Prairie Dog Song; The Mangrove Tree; Every Month Is a New Year, Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words, and most recently Butterfly for a King. Roth and her husband live in New York. Visit her online at susanlroth.com. Cindy Trumbore has been involved with young people's literature for most of her career. A former editor in children's book publishing, she now writes children's books, edits books for classrooms, and teac
