STORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD

Category Literature & Fiction
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-89967-22-7
Pages: 232 pages
Date: 1st April

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Childhood. A time of endless adventures and daring discoveries. A time when the world—and all its attendant fantasies, some good, some not so much—open up in front of the curious little eyes of impressionable minds. A time of both wonderment and bewilderment, and topsy-turvy tales.
In this book, Ruskin Bond compiles just some such stories that he loved from his childhood. Join the Mad Hatter in his crazy tea party and then rush off with Sindbad the Sailor on another of his escapades. Meander with Mowgli and his furry friends in the jungles or be party to the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
A world of wonder awaits.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children’s books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of twenty-three, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India, and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.