Can YOU identify the trees around you? This book contains beautiful stories about trees. Vriksha started as a workshop to help children identify trees that surrounded them. Now its pages hold nourishing, sunny myths about how trees could have got their names – the jackfruit tree with its crown of emerald leaves, the laburnum with flowers like gold jewels, the tenacious neem with teeth-edged leaves. Its meandering folk-like tales go to the roots, nomenclature and facts about various trees. Cassia fistula or amaltas, the golden shower tree, the beauty whose seeds are considered poisonous! Apna mango – our very own – the national fruit of Pakistan! Sodium, potassium inside the coconut.
Book Reviews
Vriksha: Original Tree Stories and Real Tree Facts
Source: kidengage.com
Trees are treasures
Source: thehindu.com
