The “Great Green Vine Invention” illuminates how children care about growth, what it means, and its limits. Our Child Author offers a vision of development that is in harmony with others and with nature. In the face of a changing climate, the destruction of global resources, the pollution of our environment and injustices in our human family, the younger generation represented in this volume offers a playful, creative voice, which carries hope for a better future. It is a gentle reminder that courage, kindness, innovation and responsibility are the keystones on which civilization flourishes.