Nice book for budding environmentalists! A picture book biography of Jadav Payeng, of India, who saw as a boy how snakes and other wildlife were dying from flooding and other problems as the trees were overharvested and habitat was stripped away. He began by planting bamboo shoots given to him by the village elders, carefully tending them, carting water in jugs to irrigate them, and gradually bringing in seeds from plants in other places as the years went by, until he had cultivated a whole forest! He added plants that were specific to certain animals, whether it was to help elephants or to provide for the small animals that became food for tigers and therefore kept the tigers out of the village. He protected the forest from poachers, and eventually it became a nature preserve. I LOVE the art in this book! Gorgeous photo-realistic paintings.