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Rosenstock, Barb

The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art

40 pp. | Candlewick | February, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-7475-5 $16.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola. Rosenstock's moving picture-book celebration of folk artist Nek Chand (creator of the Rock Garden of Chandigarh) opens in an idyllic village in Punjab. After the Partition of India in 1947, resettled refugee Chand assuages homesickness by (illegally) clearing jungle land and building an ever-increasing number of sculptures and mosaic walls out of recycled materials. Nivola's folk-art sensibility befits the simplicity of Chand's art. Bib.
Reviewer: Megan Dowd Lambert | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018

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