Tales From My Heart

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A COLLECTION OF MEMORABLE STORIES STRAIGHT FROM BELOVED CHILDREN'S AUTHOR RUSKIN BOND'S HEART.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Miss Kellner has a tin of biscuits that fascinates little Ruskin. And granny's cat is just so full of attitude. Oh and have you heard about the famous playback singer from Mumbai who sang for the ghost of the maestro Tansen? Ruskin Bond's charming life has been anything but ordinary.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He scours through his memories to come up with tales that celebrate life and its myriad splendours and many lessons-spectacular wonders of nature surprising friendships among animals and people and even ghosts that sing. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tales from My Heart</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> written in Bond's inimitable style is peppered with his trademark warmth and wit.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vividly illustrated by Sumouli Dutta this is a gift for all readers big and small-a family treasure to return to with joy and affection over the years.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ruskin Bond is India's most-loved and read children's author. His first novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Room on the Roof</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> written when he was seventeen years old won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels essays poems and children's books. 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.</span></p><p><br></p>