All-time Favourite Nature Stories - Softcover

Bond, Ruskin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143461001 ISBN 13: 9780143461005

Publisher: India Puffin, 2023

Synopsis

<p>'I am lucky to be up here on this mountain, where the wind still hums in the deodars, the horse chestnuts fall in the autumn and the flycatchers flit among the ancient oaks.'<br><br><i>ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NATURE STORIES</i> is a collection of twenty-five soulful and timeless tales about nature, featuring endearing characters and stunning illustrations.<br><br>From 'The Cherry Tree' to 'Grandfather's Feathered Foes', each story is replete with a different sensorial experience-rustling leaves, still forests, burbling streams, chirping birds, picturesque landscapes and so much more!<br><br>Curated by Ruskin Bond, this book celebrates the magnificence of nature and his deep, abiding love for it.</p>

About this title

About the Author

Born in Kasauli in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, <i>The Room on the Roof</i>, which was written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas and more than fifty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.

Edition details

• Publisher: India Puffin
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143461001
• ISBN 13: 9780143461005
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Yambem David
• Number of pages: 216