The Man Who Planted Trees

This is a touching story, by Jean Giono, about a solitary shepherd who plants a hundred seeds every day for decades, oblivious to the two World Wars that come and go, creating a marvelous forest on once barren land!

In all our book hunts, we have only ever found one copy of this book, which, of course, went to Shibumi. I do hope we will chance upon more copies to be able to distribute. In the meanwhile, here are some wonderful resources I have come across on the internet:

A pdf of the original book with woodcuts from Arvind Gupta

Just the original text

And videos on Youtube of the beautifully animated film based on the book:

Part 1 of 3

Part 2 of 3

Part 3 of 3