Mama Miti ─ Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels -- both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Association Pick of the List, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a BCCB Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her other novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is the head of the linguistics department at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and their children.

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for?Stones in Water?in 1997. 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 is?a professor of linguistics?at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.

Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. 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. Sibert Award;?Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award;?Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award;?Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life,?written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal; and?Mama Miti:?Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya?by Donna Jo Napoli called “stunning” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.?He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan’s?Salt in His Shoes?and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee’s?Please, Baby, Please and?Please, Puppy, Please. Kadir Nelson lives in Los Angeles.