ISBN: 9780143332480    Publisher: Penguin Year of publishing: 2013     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 208        Language: English

Somewhere in life there must be someone to take your hand and share the torrid day. Without the touch of friendship there is no life and we must fade away. Discover a hidden pool with three young boys, laugh out loud as a little mouse makes demands on a lonely writer, follow the mischievous 'four feathers' as they discover a baby lost in the hills and witness the bond between a tiger and his master. Some stories will make you smile, some will bring tears to your eyes, some may make your heart skip a beat but all of them will renew your faith in the power of friendship. Key Features: A charming anthology of stories and poems of friendship from India's most popular storyteller. Poignant and fun tales which will make you laugh and cry Use of lovely illustrations Ideal for both children and adults who wish to revisit Ruskin Bond
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Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountains and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He was recently awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his 'total contribution to children's literature'. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.
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