The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng

by Sophia Gholz

Book Overview

Florida Book Award Gold Winner
Recipient of the 2019 Eureka Honors Award
Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category

As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1534110240
• ISBN13: 9781534110243
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3