This beautifully illustrated picture book uses the voice of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson to describe the work and teachings of Gandhi, through the perspective of a young boy not fully the lessons he’s being taught and chaffing at the behavior expected of him.  He says of the eleven principle teachings of his grandfather, the one he struggled with the most was the teaching against waste.  In an act of defiance, one day he tosses his stubby little pencil into the grass, only to be sent into the night to spend hours hunting for it.  Eventually, his grandfather explains that wasting resources is a way form of taking from those who have less, and gives him an exercise to recognize the two types of violence: physical violence and passive violence, and the impacts all our thoughts and actions have upon the wider world.