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#Ruskin Bond

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Tales from the Childhood

Tales from the Childhood

Author: Ruskin Bond Genre: Fiction

Story 1 Mukesh and his friends decide to start a zoo. The laundryman’s donkey, a bunny, a pet parrot and dog become creatures of display at the little zoo. What adventures and misadventures are in store for the zoo and its owners? Story 2 Nathu, the bank’s sweeper-boy, is upset over not being paid for two months, whines th hi friend. Whispers follow and soon the whole town thinks the bank is bankrupt! How did Nathu’s worries turn into the bank being shut forever? Story 3 Romi hires a young Hari Singh to be his cook and companion. But Hari is upto no good. Will Hari ever learn the real meaning of loyalty, love and trust? These three funny, heart-warming stories capture the pure hilarious innocence of childhood and the lessons we take from them in these wonderfully illustrated stories from India’s mountainous countryside.

The Whistling Schoolboy And Other Stories Of School Life

The Whistling Schoolboy And Other Stories Of School Life

Author: Ruskin Bond Genre: Fiction

Here is a collection of stories about school life that will appeal to every kind of school-goer. These are incidents from the author’s own life, when he was a shy, quiet boy in boarding school, who chose the library over the football field, and was known as the best cook among the Boy Scouts.

Prankenstein: The Book of Crazy Mischief

Prankenstein: The Book of Crazy Mischief

Author: Ruskin Bond Genre: Anthology Illustrator: Lavanya Naidu

Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories.Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family members regularly fall victim to pranks? Do ghosts and spooks get you into trouble? Find every kind of funny, crazy, impossible mischief in this book. Here you will find the girl who turned into a sloth just for her mother, the horse who went to the library and ate up some classics, the substitute teacher who saw dead people, the play where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and many more amazing tales of pranks and troublemaking!