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Title

The secret kingdom : Nek Chand, a changing India, and a hidden world of art / Barb Rosenstock ; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.

Author

Rosenstock, Barb

Publication

• Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Nivola, Claire A.
• Candlewick Press, publisher.

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

• The incredible story of the world's largest visionary environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by outsider artist Nek Chand for fifteen years
• As a refugee during the partition of India in 1947, Nek Chand Saini was resettled in the city of Chandigarh with nothing but the stories he carried in his heart from his homeland. Dismayed at the modern new city he now lived in, he began collecting broken glass, cracked water pots, and discarded construction materials. In a section of wilderness he cleared himself, Nek Chand built the Rock Garden, full of curving paths, intricate mosaics, and hundreds of sculptures of people and animals, which eventually grew to a thirteen-acre wonderland. It was his tribute to the village of his youth, a land full of hidden stories. Barb Rosenstock introduces readers to an incredible outsider artist's vast, stunning creation, and Claire A. Nivola's illustrations bring to life the natural beauty of India and the surreal and marvelous world Nek Chand coaxed from the wild landscape. -- From dust jacket

Subject

• Chand, Nek > Juvenile literature
• Chand, Nek
• Sculptors > India > Biography > Juvenile literature
• Rock gardens > India > Juvenile literature
• JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Art
• JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > Asia
• JUVENILE NONFICTION > Recycling & Green Living
• Rock gardens
• Sculptors
• Artists
• Chandīgarh (India) > Juvenile literature
• India > Juvenile literature
• India
• India > Chandīgarh

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.
• Juvenile works.
• Picture books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Audience (note)

• Ages 7-10
• 1100L
• Grades 2-5

Call Number

JFF 19-1380

ISBN

• 0763674753
• 9780763674755

LCCN

2018933653

OCLC

987421953

Author

Rosenstock, Barb, author.

Title

The secret kingdom : Nek Chand, a changing India, and a hidden world of art / Barb Rosenstock ; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.

Publisher

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Author: National/regional group: Illinoisians

Illustrator: National/regional group: Bay Staters

National/regional group: Americans

Gender group: Women

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Audience

Ages 7-10

1100L Lexile

Grades 2-5

Study Program

Accelerated Reader LG 5.2 0.5

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Added Author

Nivola, Claire A., illustrator.

Candlewick Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFF 19-1380