El mangle: Sembrando árboles para alimentar familias (The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families)

by Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore, Susan L. Roth (Illustrator)

Overview

La fascinante historia del Dr. Gordon Sato, quien ayudó a una pequeña aldea africana a ser autosuficiente plantando un bosque de manglares para remodelar el ecosistema de la comunidad.

Durante mucho tiempo, los habitantes de la aldea de Hargigo, en el diminuto país africano de Eritrea, no tenían suficiente comida para alimentarse a sí mismos y a sus animales. Las familias pasaban hambre, y sus cabras y ovejas también. Pero llegó un científico, el Dr. Gordon Sato, quien cambió radicalmente sus vidas. Y todo empezó por unos árboles muy especiales.

Estas son las plantas,
las plantas delos manglares
sembradas junto a los mares.

Alternando verso y prosa, El mangle invita a los lectores a descubrir cómo el proyecto de plantar mangles del Dr. Sato transformó una aldea pobrísima en una comunidad autosuficiente. Esta cautivadora historia de innovación medioambiental es una celebración a la creatividad, el esfuerzo y la capacidad de una persona para cambiar positivamente la vida de muchas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643795935
Publisher:	Lee & Low Books
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	56 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years
Language:	Spanish

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 teaches writing. She has collaborated with her friend Susan L. Roth on several award-winning titles, including Parrots Over Puerto Rico, which won the Robert F. Sibert Medal for Nonfiction; The Mangrove Tree; Prairie Dog Song, and most recently Butterfly for a King. She lives with her husband in Delaware. You can visit her online at cindykane.net.

Susan L. Roth's vibrant 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; and most recently Every Month Is a New Year and Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words. Roth and her husband live in New York. Visit her online at susanlroth.com.

Editorial Reviews

* "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. Today these animals live longer, produce healthier and larger flocks, and feed the residents of Hargigo. In addition to Roth's stunning, full-page color-saturated collage and mixed-media artwork, 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

"Roth's artwork is a treat, cut-paper and fabric collages of intense, shimmering color on a ground of paper that is electric with thick veins of fiber. Roth and Trumbore's cumulative verse goes about its merry way on the left page . . . while a narrative on the right takes readers on Sato's journey. 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

ALSC Notable Children's Books - American Library Association (ALA)
Best Children's Books of the Year Outstanding - Bank Street College of Education
CCBC Choices - Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Winner - California Reading Association
Green Earth Book Award - Children's Nonfiction Shortlist - The Nature Generation
Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Jane Addams Peace Association
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Honor - National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Outstanding Achievement in Children's Literature - Wisconsin Library Association

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