Tigers forever

by Ruskin Bond

Although he fears him, a young Indian boy is unhappy when the villagers decide to hunt the tiger that roams the forest near their home.

Genres: Poetry, Short Stories

41 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

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.

Reviews

[Ravi Prakash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply Ruskin Bond!! Most beloved English writer of India. This is collection of poems and stories. The spell of Bond never leaves you while reading. It's a small book, you can finish in a sitting.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Ruskin Bond always remains delightful experience, this book is collection of poems, stories eerie as well as funny make you enjoy reading a good book experience.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poem of Ruskin Bond Tigers forever is illustrated for the young readers.

[Niharika Chakravarty · Rating 4 out of 5]

The series of short stories took me back to my childhood. It's the perfect book I can get my students to start with, in an attempt to get them interested in reading.

[Ashish Gautam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ruskin Bond books have a charm of their own and his style of writing which is very much attached to nature and its creations gives an entirely different experience of reading. This book is a collection of various short stories and poems. These stories are so rich that I still occasionally read a few of my favorites. There is a variety in the stories, each one is of entirely different plot and thus give totally different experience. But it is Ruskin Bond so all the stories are set in Mountains. You will get Mystery, Supernatural elements, ghosts, animals and much much more. Though if you are looking for some mature text then this book is not very up in that scale.

[Tavleen Kaur (Travelling Through Words) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sweet and heart-warming stories and poems

[Chirag · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book after 7 years and still remembered most of it's stories. That's the magic Mr. Bond creates with his stories.

[Swati Agrawal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is such a sweet collection of stories and poems.