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The secret kingdom Nek Chand, a changing India, and a hidden world of art

The incredible story of the world's largest visionary art environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by artist Nek Chand for fifteen years.

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Main Author: Rosenstock, Barb (Author)
Other Authors: Nivola, Claire A. (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Chand, Nek > Juvenile nonfiction.
Sculptors > India > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
Rock gardens > India > Juvenile nonfiction.
Chandīgarh (India) > Juvenile nonfiction.
India > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biographies > Juvenile.
Picture books.
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Summary:The incredible story of the world's largest visionary art environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by 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--Dust jacket.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:Ages 7-10
1100L
Grades 2-5
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0763674753
9780763674755
Author Notes:Barb Rosenstock is a children's book author who loves true stories. Her work includes The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks , illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein; The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art, illustrated by Mary GrandPré; and many others. Barb Rosenstock lives in Chicago.

Claire A. Nivola is an award-winning artist who has written and illustrated many books for children. She is the author-illustrator of Orani: My Father's Village and Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai . She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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