The Hidden Pool

Ruskin Bond's first novel for children in a whole new look! Laurie an English boy in a small hill town in India strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anil the son of a local cloth merchant and Kamal an orphan who sells buttons and shoelaces but dreams of going to college. One day the three discover a secret pool on the mountainside and it is there that they plan their greatest escapade yet-a trek to the Pindari Glacier where no one from their town has gone before. This newly illustrated edition of Bond’s magical tale of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another generation of readers. About the Author Born in Kasauli in 1934 Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar Dehradun New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel The Room on the Roof written when he was seventeen received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over five hundred short stories essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountains and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993 the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his ‘total contribution to children’s literature’ in 2013 and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour Mussoorie with his extended family.