This book's beautiful colors and lines will tell children all about an extraordinary Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Born in Kenya, Wangari Maathai was an ardent champion of women's rights in Africa, and throughout her life advocated proudly and loudly for democracy, non-violence, free speech, and emancipation, sometimes endangering her own life and freedom. She launched an operation both vast symbolic for women to replant Africa with trees. Thirty million trees have already been planted. Her activism at every moment of a long career of over thirty years was justly recognized by the Nobel Committee in 2004 with its most fulfilling prize: the Prize for Peace.