![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrator’s agent: Lori Nowicki, Painted Words. Author’s agent: Karen Grencik, Red Fox Literary. Tells the story of a Gambian woman who came up with a way to recycle the plastic bags that had littered the landscape in her nation, an act that saved the. The City of Fawn Creek is located in the State of Kansas. ![]() A glossary and list of suggested reading are included. Find books like One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia from the worlds largest community of readers. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia is about a lady named Isatou, who recycles plastic bags. Incorporating real plastic bags into her mixed-media collages, Zunon, who grew up in West Africa, juxtaposes the brown, dusty landscape against splashes of color and vibrant printed dresses and head coverings worn by the village women. Notes of hope, determination, and empowerment suffuse Paul’s story, which the author explains was informed by her volunteer work as a teacher in the Gambia. She teaches other women to do the same, and an ecologically-minded enterprise is born. Compelled to make her home beautiful, Isatou gathers the bags, cleans them, and crochets them into purses. But years later, the same plastic bags, festering in trash heaps or floating through the air, have become a menace to humans and animals. As a girl, Isatou admired the colors and myriad uses of the plastic bags that began to proliferate in her community. One woman’s efforts to rid her Gambian village of trash sparks a recycling movement in this uplifting tale inspired by true events. ![]()
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