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100			_a Karmakar, Goutam _953782
245			_aTransformative learning with Wangari Maathai: Fostering environmental education and sustainability through the green picturebook seeds of change: Planting a path to peace
260			_aJournal of Human Values
300			_a31(1), Jan, 2025: p.97-117
520			_aPicturebooks that focus on environmental issues offer children the chance to connect with natural settings, promoting emotional and mental health, while also developing ethical principles and an authentic concern for the environment. This genre possesses the capacity to emotionally captivate children through its combination of text and visuals, potentially resulting in a shift in their perspectives towards the topics and issues being portrayed. In addition to this, picturebooks are educational because they use words and images to choose, arrange, and understand data and statistics, thereby making knowledge accessible to those who are generally interested and engaging readers on an emotional and intellectual level. This essay examines how the picturebook Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace (2010) effectively communicates Wangari Maathai’s environmental advocacy. For this purpose, the article offers a brief examination of the influence of Maathai’s Green Belt Movement and the holistic ecological connotations that the visual representations seek to emphasize. The article contends that this ‘green informational picturebook’ acts as a catalyst for transformative learning by enhancing ecological literacy in children and serving as a platform for environmental education and sustainability in the public as a whole.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09716858241263129
650			_aPicturebooks, Environment, Sustainability, Children, Wangari, Mathai, Kenya, Literature. _953783
773			_aJournal of Human Values
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