Uncles Aunts and Elephants

India's favorite storyteller Ruskin Bond has regaled generations of readers for decades. This delightful collection of poetry prose and selected non-fiction brings together some of his best work in a single volume. Sumptuously illustrated Uncles Aunts and Elephants is a book to treasure for all times.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. 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.