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Roots & Rise: An Entrepreneur's Fable
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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
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