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A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story represents the richness and range of contemporary writing for children, and is beautifully illustrated to make this truly a collector's item.

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Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	18 novembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789351185536
Langue	English

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Edited by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
From Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon

PUFFIN BOOKS
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
From Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji Illustrated by Pulak Biswas
Notes on Authors and Translators
Notes on Illustrators
Acknowledgements
Copyright

For Ravi, mentor and favourite editor
Introduction
An introduction to an anthology of stories for children, broadly between the ages of eight and twelve, is perhaps dispensable as it is unlikely to be read by them. Nevertheless, some explanation for the selection in this volume seems necessary. Unlike literature for children in many countries, in India there is very little material specifically designed for them which has delighted successive generations and is also enjoyed by children today. Here, stories that have gone down from grandparent to parent to child are mostly from the Epics, myths, legends and folktales, the Panchatantra , Jatakas , Kat