El mangle

By Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth

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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.

For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. And it all started with some special trees.

These are the trees,
Mangrove trees,
That were planted by the sea.

With alternating verse and prose passages, The Mangrove Tree invites readers to discover how Dr. Sato’s mangrove tree-planting project transformed an impoverished village into a self-sufficient community. This fascinating story is a celebration of creativity, hard work—and all those mangrove trees that were planted by the sea!

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