SynopsisThis picture book, written by the master storyteller Ruskin Bond, Happy Birthday, World!, is a timely book about the world’s natural wonders. Beautifully illustrated by naturalist Maya Ramaswamy the book will both inform and delight young readers, while reminding them to take care of our precious earth. The book is the first Ruskin Bond title written for children as young as 4 years old.
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Binding: PaperBack
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.
