A review by optimaggie
111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl by Rina Singh

5.0

This is a very inspiring story of one man who took great loss (loss of his mother in his childhood, loss of his young daughter and loss of the natural world around him due to a marble mining operation nearby) and created huge and beautiful changes for the people of his village and the land around them. This story will gently introduce your children to topics such as death of a parent, death of a child, deforestation, water inequality, gender inequality, child marriage, etc. This isn't a light before bed kind of read. This is the kind that you read when you have time to discuss. Bonus points if you have some trees to plant with your child(ren) in their honor or in someone else's