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

2020 Green Earth Book Award Long list

2020 Crystal Kite Awards – Southeast Division Winner

2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List

Notable Social Studies Trade Books list – Winning Title

2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award – Winning Title

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 filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng–and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.