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小さな種：ワンガリ・マータイの物語

A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai

An illustrated Global Storybooks reader: A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai.

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An illustrated Global Storybooks reader: A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai.

This free chapter contains 1 learner-friendly sentences. The complete book has 12 chapters.

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Publisher: Global Storybooks / Storybooks Canada
Creators: Nicola Rijsdijk (writer), Maya Marshak (illustrator)
Translation: Kei Fukumoto, Konomi Nakagawa, Sayaka Yamamoto, Saari Yoshida
This edition: Published Global Storybooks target and English source files aligned page by page; Storyglot adds grading and machine gloss scaffolds verified through automated editorial QA.

Original story ↗ · Source edition ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗

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