Bumoni can eat all the bananas she wants, whenever she wants! Her big backyard, just outside the Kaziranga National Park, is bursting with banana trees that give the family so much – fruit, flowers, leaves and stems, every bit is used. One night, a herd of wild elephants crosses the river and discovers the trees! And they are back, night after night, gorging on the bananas and banana leaves. Bumoni’s family is very upset – how do they keep the elephants away? Then, she has an idea! But what will the elephants eat now?
Originally in Assamese
Illustrated by Tarique Aziz
2022 Winner of Neev Book Award
2022 Winner Green Literature Festival Honor Book Award
2022 Honor Book, Toka Box Top South Asian Book Award
2022 Shortlist for Valley of Words Award
2022 SCBWI Recommended Reading List - Books in Translation
2021 SCBWI Recommended Reading List - Native, First Nations & Indigenous Heritage
In Print:
From Toka Box
Bulbuli lives in a bamboo house in a bamboo grove, and is busy in her little bamboo world from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to sleep. Just by following Bulbuli around, this evocative story told in a rhythmic, cumulative style spotlights bamboo to make green statement simply and charmingly. Bamboo is, after all, one of the fastest growing plants on earth and one bamboo grove releases nearly thirty-five per cent more oxygen and absorbs about four times as much carbon dioxide than an equivalent cluster of trees. Words and pictures communicate a very real sense of the versatility of bamboo and its importance as a key resource for sustainable living.
Illustrated by Proiti Roy
Recommended by CBSE & NCERT
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