Library invites global authors to write for future generations

The World

In a forest outside of Norway, a thousand spruce trees are growing. They were planted in 2014 and will grow for a century, when they’ll be cut down and turned into books for a project called “Future Library.” The World’s Bianca Hillier has the story.

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