ISBN: 9789381115572    Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 110        Language: English

This engaging compilation of 12 short stories, takes children on a journey to a land of teacups and elves, tadpoles and talking trees - where imagination rules the day. The world is populated by such wonderous things as imps, caterpillars and errant bushes that walk and talk... Included are the tales of Empty Head, the story of a young man whose head is full of fantasies like blue-bottle fairies dancing in red teacups in the sky and chocolate chip mansions surrounded with meadows of green icing; Taddy the Tadpole, who begs his uncle Foggy Foo, to take him away onto land so that he will not be devoured by the fish in the river; a wonderful chat between Elfwood and Giant Pine when Pine asks for help to move to the meadows, as he is not happy in the forest; Saby the Caterpillar, who longs to become a butterfly only to find that wicked dragonfly eats butterflies and other insects near his home, the Petunia plant... Children will love meeting King Oily, Beetle the Ball, the Paranoid Elf...and all the other colourful characters who live through the pages of this memorable montage. The Chattering Forest is equally enjoyable whether shared aloud, enacted, or read by oneself, curled up on a rainy afternoon.
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ren's programme, Let's Make a Story. Perhaps the seedsof a boundless imagination were sown in these diverse childhood experiences. A voracious reader, Seema remembers when her exasperatedfather threw her story books out of the window, convinced that her academic studies were suffering. But she sneakeddown four flights of stairs and quietly retrieved the books instead! Seema has lived her life in multiple cultures and akaleidoscope of different worlds - from her childhood, to working for CRY (Child Relief and You), to being an expatwife and following her husband on assignments to Sri Lanka, China, Singapore and Indonesia.Through her travels and sojourns, she continues to inhabit yet another world through her writing and the enchantingbursts of magic in her stories. As Seema says, 'For me, writing is a catharsis. It allows me to peer into my soul as I lose myselfand revel in a wonderful world of fantasy."The Chattering Forest is her third book, followed by The Bumblebees and Other Stories and A Grain of Truth, her first book in the adult-realist fiction genre.Seema can be reached at: seemachat@hotmail.com
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