The Trees Know All The Stories - Softcover

Saharia R

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798904319878

Publisher: Notion Press, 2026

Synopsis

Winner: Children's Book of the Year - Sueños 2nd International Children's Book Awards 2026

An ancient tree. 5,000 years of stories. One summer that changes everything.

Eight-year-old Arjun Sharma is sent to his grandmother's village expecting a boring summer. Instead, he finds an ancient Peepal tree - one that has watched over India for 5,000 years and remembers every story it has seen.

Lost cities. Forgotten kingdoms. Wandering sages. Epic battles. Extraordinary ideas. And the countless ordinary people whose lives quietly shaped the world Arjun stands in.

As the tree's stories unfold, Arjun begins to see his family, his heritage, and himself differently - discovering that history isn't something in a textbook, but something alive in the ground beneath his feet.

Blending adventure, wonder, and wisdom, The Trees Know All the Stories brings India's rich past to life through the eyes of a curious child and an unforgettable narrator.

Perfect for:

• Readers aged 10-14 who love adventure and history
• Families who enjoy meaningful stories and timeless life lessons
• Young readers curious about Indian mythology, culture, and the natural world
• Parents looking for engaging, screen-free chapter books

The Trees Know All the Stories is Book 1 of The Earth Remembers Chronicles - seven books, seven ancient narrators, one extraordinary journey across India's history, geography, and science.

About this title

About the Author

Saharia R writes at the intersection of nature, history, and the stories 
that India has carried for thousands of years.
 
The Trees Know All the Stories is the first book in 
The Earth Remembers— a seven-book literary series in which a boy 
named Arjun Sharma grows up across India, encountering ancient narrators: 
a Peepal tree, a river, a mountain, a desert, an ocean. Each book is a 
story. Each story is also a world — of history, of science, of what it 
means to belong to a place as old as this one.
 
Saharia R believes the best history was never in textbooks. It was in the 
trees that watched it happen.
 
The second book in the series, The River Never Forgets, is 
forthcoming in 2027.

From the Back Cover

Eight-year-old Arjun Sharma did not want to spend the summer in a village.
He wanted to go home to Mumbai.

But his Nani had other plans. And so did the tree.

The Peepal at the edge of Banspur is five thousand years old. It has
watched empires rise and crumble from this single spot. It has seen India —
the ancient, the medieval, the colonial, the free — pass through its shade
like seasons. And now it has chosen a boy who is half-listening, homesick,
and entirely unprepared for what it is about to tell him.

Part story, part history, part love letter to the India that existed long
before any of us — The Trees Know All the Stories is the first book
in The Earth Remembers, a seven-book series following Arjun as he
grows up in conversation with the ancient natural world.

Some trees have been here long enough to remember everything.

This one is finally ready to talk.

From the Inside Flap

Arjun Sharma is eight years old, and he would rather be back in Mumbai.
Instead he finds himself in Banspur — a small village in Madhya Pradesh —
spending the summer with his Nani. There is no Wi-Fi. There is no noise.
There is only the heat, the dust, and an enormous Peepal tree at the edge
of the village that his Nani insists is special.

She is not wrong.

The tree is five thousand years old. It has a name — Dada — and it has
been watching. For five millennia, from this one rooted spot, it has
witnessed everything: the rise of the Maurya empire and its fall, the
arrival of traders and conquerors, the slow burn of a freedom struggle,
the birth of a modern nation. It has seen kings and beggars, saints and
soldiers, ordinary people living ordinary lives that history forgot to
record.

Now, for reasons it does not entirely explain, it has decided to tell
Arjun everything.

What follows is unlike any history Arjun has encountered in school — dry,
distant, full of dates that meant nothing. This history is alive. It smells
of soil and monsoon rain. It has voices and faces. It is told by something
that was there.

The Trees Know All the Stories is a novel about memory — what
civilisations remember, what families pass down, and what gets lost when
we stop listening to the oldest things around us. It is a book for children
who love stories and adults who forgot they did.

It is the first of seven.
Arjun has only just begun to listen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Notion Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798904319878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264