Savi and the Memory Keeper
MY THOUGHTS
Rarely does a children’s book come around that makes you research terms, phenomena, and look up fascinating facts. Savi and the Memory Keeper led me multiple times down the rabbit hole, and I came away enriched from reading this book.
Savi and the Memory Keeper is a book primarily about a girl coping with the loss of her father, but then it is so much more than that. After the loss of her father, Savi’s mother moves the family to Shajarpur, the only place in India not affected by climate change. As her family deals with loss in their own individual ways, Savi finds herself taking care of her father’s plants. She detests everything about the new city except for a big ficus tree in her school. Soon, strange things begin to happen every time she touches Tree or the plants, and that begins the process of how she sees Shajarpur, her friends, and even how she remembers her father.
Bijal Vachharajani is a self-proclaimed climate worrier and her passion for the environment and her unique ability to embrace and envelop a reader into the story with interesting climate tidbits make her books must-reads for every child growing up in this generation.
If you need a book to make your child fall in love with nature and look beyond the scientific aspect of climate change, then this book would be it. It is packed with information that is equal parts scientific and humanistic. The appeal of the book for me lies in the relatable characters she creates and the casual, trendy writing style peppered with words and motifs kids today are familiar with. There is so much to love in the book, but I ❤️ Bekku and Cucumber Tendril boy!
Savi and the Memory Keeper is a fascinatingly moving book about love, loss, climate change and caring for the environment and shows that Bijal is an exciting author to read in the children’s cli-fi genre. After Cloud called Bhura, she gave us another book that changes something in your soul. You begin reading and then slowly realise you are invested in the characters. Illustrator Rajiv Eipe, leaves his own mark on the book with special illustrations.
Listen to Bijal V share her process and the reason behind why she wrote Savi and the Memory Keeper on the podcast here
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