The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life+The Great Train Journey - 4th+THE GREAT INDIAN ROPE TRICK (PB)

A Children?s Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor?s pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be a part of the children?s bookshelf. These are editorial recommendations made by our team of experts. Our monthly reading list includes a mix of bestsellers and top new releases and evergreen books that will help enhance a child?s reading life.+The magician shrieked ‘Someone has cut the rope! What will my boy do now?’A minute later down came the boy’s head. It bounced on the ground like a coconut.This was followed by the boy’s arms legs and body all falling to the ground one after another.India is a land of many myths. Curiosity abounds in every corner and at every turnthere’s some sprinkling of mystery. Soothsayers with their prophecies and wise men withtheir wisdom co-exist with swindlers with their stratagems and conjurers with theircharms weaving illusions to appear as powerful as the many gods that this land worships.In The Great Indian Rope Trick Ruskin Bond puts together a selection of stories thatcapture both the magical and the mundane. Witness peripatetic men casting their spellsknow the legends of Binsar or just rush off with Rusty into the arms of freedom. Aworld of wonder awaits.