Chris Rice retells this exciting story of life-changing experience in engaging prose composed especially for pre-intermediate literacy learners. While John Wood was working for Microsoft, he went on vacation to Nepal. There, in a small mountain village, he visited a school library which had very few books. The shock of this experience changed his life. Now his charity, Room to Read, has built more than 10,000 libraries and schools to give children in poor countries a better future.

Accompanying audio CD is in MP3 format.