The Boy Who Grew a Forest

The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
by Sophia Gholz (Author) and Kayla Harren (Illustrator)

Booktalk: 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 filled with native plants and animals.

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