Name: Rusty and the Leopard
Brand: Penguin Books India
SKU: BK 0001365
Price: 299.0 INR
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Description

Rusty s adventures in the Doon valley and the Garhwal hills.

Rusty, having run away from his guardian s home, is now trying to define his identity as he lives with the Kapoor family, tutoring their son Kishen and occupying the room on the roof. Soon, he becomes close to Kishen and, in the company of Meena Kapoor, begins to come into his own as an individual. Then tragedy strikes Meena s death devastates Rusty, and he leaves Dehra Dun. Rusty and Kishen take to the open road, and their adventures accumulate as they tramp through the Doon valley and the Garhwal hills. His time on the road allows Rusty to decide what he really wants to do and by the end of the book he is preparing for a trip to London, dreaming of becoming a writer.

Full of incident as well as introspection, this is a book older children will thoroughly enjoy.

About the Author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Author : Ruskin Bond

Publisher ‏ : Puffin

Binding Type : Paperback

Language : English

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143333418