Grandma's Bag of Stories

Memories of a grandparent spinning tales around animals and mysterious characters have kept many of us rapt till date. *Sudha Murty*'s *Grandma's Bag of Stories* is simply delightful. The story starts with Anand, Krishna, Raghu, and Meena arriving at their grandparents' house in Shiggaon. Overjoyed, Ajji and Ajja, or grandmother and grandfather in Kannada, get the house ready while Ajji prepares delicious snacks for the children. Finally, the time comes when everyone gathers around Ajji as she opens her big bag of stories. She tells stories of kings and cheats, princesses and onions, monkeys and mice, and scorpions and hidden treasures. Through these unlikely combinations, the stories make perfect sense when Grandma is the one narrating them. This book is ideal for young children and those who are five years old and above. The stories are accompanied by colorful illustrations and morals. The lucid and simple language of the book makes reading a pleasure. *Sudha Murty*, an active Indian social worker and writer, was born on 19th August 1950. She writes in two languages: Kannada and English. *Sudha* started her career in the field of computer science and engineering. She is an active member of the Gate Foundation and the chairperson of a non-profit organization, the Infosys Foundation, in Karnataka. Credited for founding several orphanages, *Sudha* has also participated in various rural development efforts to provide library and computer facilities in all government schools of Karnataka. One of her many achievements includes establishing the *The Murty Classical Library of India* at Harvard University. Apart from writing novels, she has also acted in films: *Pitruroon* (a Marathi film) and *Prarthana* (a Kannada film). *Sudha Murty* is India's biggest selling woman author. Among her most popular non-fiction works are *Wise and Otherwise*, *The Old Man and His God*, *The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk*, and *How I Taught My Grandmother to Read*.