Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0670910759 |
ISBN-13 | 9780141314150 |
No of pages | 318 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Penguin India |
Published Date | 21 May 2001 |
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademie award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademie, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landor near Mussoorie.
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Ruskin Bond, the master storyteller, is at his inventive best when spinning out yarns for children. For over four decades, the author has conjured up an enchanting literary landscape in which children play an integral role. This collection brings together thirty-seven of his finest stories for children, including some that have never been published in India before.
The themes of the stories are refreshingly simple: the close bond between a young boy and his grandmother and their long trek to buy a new pair of reading glasses in ‘A Long Walk with Granny’; a bicycle ride which becomes a nightmare for a young boy when he encounters the strange duo of a brother and a sister on a lonely road in ‘The Haunted Bicycle’; the hilarious adventures of a family travelling on a train with their unusual pets: a tiger, a squirrel, a parrot, and a whimsical python, in ‘Animals on the Track’.
A rich cast of characters exert their magical spell, whether it is uncle Ken, who flits from job to job, living off his doting sisters with great aplomb; or Miss Mackenzie, whose love for flowers becomes a common link between her and a young schoolboy; or Toto, the little frisky monkey, whose exploits make for delightful reading. With a personal, nostalgic introduction by the author and some superb illustrations, this edition is certain to become a collector’s item.