Hip-Hop Nature Boy & Other Poems

The very best of Bond’s charming versesBeautiful poignant and funny Ruskin Bond’s eclectic verses for children are a joy to read to yourself on a lazy summer afternoon or to recite among friends. Nature love friends school books-all find a place in the poetry of India’s favourite writer. About the Author Ruskin Bond's first novel The Room on the Roof written when he was seventeen won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far) essays poems and children's books many of which have been published by Penguin India.He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.