Wangari’s Tree of Peace: A True Story from Africa was written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter. Wangari was a girl who lived in kenya. She helped her mom and planted trees. Wangari was very good in school and got a scholarship in america. She was schooled for six more years then came back to Kenya. She saw how plain the land had become. There were no trees, no plants, no greenery. So she decided to plant her own trees. She planted nine trees and then the woman of Kenya joined in. They all planted tree and Kenya became green like it once was. At school we watched a video were lots of young girls got the opportunity to go to highschool and university. Oprah took the girls to the school and interview them on why they should go to her school, some of them had really sad back stories. I like the illustrations in the book and how she turned the problem into an organization for planting plants.