COMING SOON!
PUBLISHED BY BATSFORD
MARCH 2026
CAPTIVATING STORIES
RETOLD BY MASTER FOLKLORIST
ROSALIND KERVEN,
OFFERING AN INSPIRING
NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
THAT THREATEN OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD
with the natural environment
and other species?
Be inspired by this unique collection
of forty traditional stories
and fragments of wisdom
drawn from every corner of the Earth.
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MYTHS, LEGENDS & TALES
FOR A GREENER WORLD
harnesses time-honoured wisdom
from many different cultures
to help imagine an optimistic vision
of life on Earth for the future.
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"Rosalind is one of our
all-time best-selling authors,
and we are very excited to publish
this beautiful and important book
to help us imagine a more
harmonious future for our planet."
– Nicola Newman, Editorial Director,
Batsford Books
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An ancient chant from Tahiti:
"Forests grew and increased.
Food grew and increased.
Creeping plants grew and increased.
Living things grew
In the sea and the rivers and the land."
MEET AMAZING CHARACTERS
★ The Cheyenne Grandmother Turtle ★
π A Chinese Dragon-King-Mother π
★ The Irish Hungry Man ★
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"The Earth was once a human beingand she is still alive...The soil is her flesh,the trees and vegetation are her hair,the rocks are her bonesand the wind is her breath.She lies spread out, and we live on her."– Nespelem Native American people
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READ EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
A terrifying battle of strength
between a fierce Tiger-Demon and
the kindly Mother of the Forest
in Bangladesh.
"I bow to no one," said the Tiger-Demon,
"unless human beings
immediately stop their destruction."
Who do you think will win?
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Bears capture some
Wyandot people in North America.
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| Shudder at their scary tricks |
then learn from their invaluable lessons.
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A MΔori man in New Zealand
makes friends with a whale.
Find out how he loyally defends
his animal comrade.
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"Once fire gathers momentum,
it is almost unstoppable.
It's exactly the same with extinction."
– from a Nigerian story
LEARN HOW TODO YOUR BIT TO HELP PLANET EARTH!
Keep the Song Alive
like the Congolese Mbuti people
– It's The Most Beautiful Song in the Forest!
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Value Everything
like the Maya people of Guatemala
"We trees would never harm the Earth.
For we are the living link in creation.
And even wild things can
prove invaluable to humans."
Clear Up Your Own Mess
like a shrewd old man in the Middle East
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"All around us there is constant conflict
between the forces
of good and evil."
– Wisdom of South America's
Mapuche people
DREAM OF A BETTER FUTURE
Watch the Wild Ones Fight Back
in Portugal
Get supernatural help to protect the Water
in Trinidad & Tobago
Witness the Earth Reborn
with an Aztec myth
See Flowers Bloom Again
with Indigenous Australian sages
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"Since all things act
according to their nature
Let us dance and
sing in thanks
Because all things
are as they are"
– Ethiopian wisdom
These astonishing stories
from over 40 different cultures
celebrate our common humanity
in the quest to protect and save
our beautiful planet Earth.
With extensive notes about
the peoples who first told each story
and other fascinating information.
Black and white illustrations
on this web page
all by Joe McLaren
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