Roots & Rise: An Entrepreneur’s Fable

Most kids' books about success sell a lie: dream big and everything works out.

This book tells the truth.

Amar is a young farmer in the Himalayas who watches a debt collector humiliate his father. Something breaks. Something else ignites. He vows: never again.

Then an ancient apple tree named Bodhi starts talking to him.

Not magic. Mentorship.

Bodhi teaches Amar what no one teaches kids-that ambition without discipline is just noise. That patience isn't passive; it's the hardest work there is. That giving builds more wealth than taking ever could.

Chapter by chapter, Amar fails. Waits. Learns. Fails again. Builds an orchard and a life, one root at a time.

Every chapter is a real entrepreneurial principle disguised as a story your child won't want to put down. Vision. Honesty under pressure. Strategic patience. The courage to endure when nothing is growing yet.

The fable ends. The reflection begins. Built-in discussion questions turn each lesson into a conversation between you and your child about character, money, community, and what success actually means.

This isn't a bedtime story. It's a blueprint wrapped in one.

Plant the seed now.

Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots Grant Recipient
2026 Purple Dragonfly Award Winner