By: Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore
Collages by: Susan L. Roth
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Copyright Date: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60060-459-1
Genre: Picture Book Biography Format: Non Fiction
Major Awards Received:
Green Earth Book Award, 2012 Winner Childrens Nonfiction United States
Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2012 Winner Younger Children United States
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2012
Summary: This book is about how Dr. Gordon Sato wanted to help villages that were ravaged with hunger, poverty, and shrinking animal populations. He suggested to them that they plant mangrove trees by the shore of the Red Sea where they could grow and be feed the animals, which would intern feed the people. The mangroves grew so well they were able to use the entire plant and other villages used the mangrove to help them also.
Personal response: This is truly inspirational story of how one man's idea saved many villages and enabled them to create a prosperous future for generations to come. Having dealt with poverty and hunger before, Dr. Sato's idea gave hope of a new future to many. This story is one that I will look to when I need inspiration to show that the efforts of one can help many.
Classroom connections: I am looking forward to using this book to not only teach that one person can help a village but to teach about how helping our environment can in turn help ourselves. Using the website http://www.leeandlow.com/p/mangrove_tree_tg.mhtml, I will be able to get many ideas of how to use this book in a lesson about how to live a "green" life. I will also show the video that is at
http://themanzanarproject.com/videos.html, so that students will have a first hand glimpse of the author. I feel that it is very important to link the author to his work.
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