This impressive picture book biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai combines striking, beautifully coloured illustration with a detailed text that explains how her work as a ground-breaking environmentalist was bound up with her role as an activist for women's rights and democracy. An afterword with maps and photographs gives more factual information and a timeline of her career, using quotations from her autobiography and Nobel lecture to further illustrate her advocacy of sustainable living.