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April‘s choice is a nobrainer. Unbowed is an amazing story about a courageous and fantastic woman! 🥰🥰🥰#12BooksOf2025

Mitten progress. I‘m past the thumb break now!

I‘m trying to alternate between fiction & nonfiction audios through to the end of the year, so I combed through my Litsy stack last night and found Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai‘s memoir. I‘m so glad it was available on Hoopla. She‘s a fascinating person who seems committed to looking at the world through a compassionate lens. #audioknitting

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook ☕️📚

“Our work was not simply about planting trees. It was about inspiring people to take charge of their environment, the system that governed them, their lives and their future.” -Wangari Maathai

You could use this book in any elementary grade level classroom to discuss the importance we play in our environment. You could also emphasize the sense of community in this book and how everyone has a role to play.

Published in 2008, a biography. The story of Wangari Maathai, a nature loving woman who founded the Green Belt Movement in her home country after returning to barren land after college. She involved all pieces of her community to work together and plant trees to bring her home country land of Kenya back to life.

I did manage to finish this before Audible took it from the Plus program. It was slightly better than The Moon Sister, but, because Electra becomes interested in the causes of civil rights and drug abuse prevention, Riley becomes overly pedantic about those causes, making the book drag. Learning about the Happy Valley Set in Africa was interesting, however. They were some unhappy people. Started Ashley Winstead‘s The Last Housewife. #audiowalk