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Publié par | Penguin Books Ltd |
Date de parution | 18 novembre 2013 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9789351185512 |
Langue | English |
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Edited by Shama Futehally
The Tunnel
PUFFIN BOOKS
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
The Tunnel
Shama Futehally Illustrated by K. P.Sudesh
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 , Kathasaritsagara and the Hitopadesha . So instead of taking excerpts, most of the stories in this volume stand on their own: only a few have been extracted from novels of well-known writers like R.K. Narayan s Swami and Friends , Salman Rushdie s Haroun and the Sea of Stories , and Dhan Gopal Mukerji s Gay-Neck:The Story of a Pigeon.
The main aim of The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories is to offer some of the best Indian children s fiction available in English.