An island of trees: Nature stories and poems

by Ruskin Bond

Poems and stories, set in India, introduce a tree-climbing grandmother, bullies buttered on toast, and a very naughty hornbill.

Genres: Nature

90 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

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

[Raksha Bhat · Rating 5 out of 5]

There could be no better way to start a morning with, Ruskin Bond's writings about everything in nature. Trees and flowers, rivers and streams, mountains and hills. He has a way with his words which instantly connects you to the place he describes with such beautiful intensity. The prose is poetic and the poems are stories by themselves.

[Yashaswinigera · Rating 5 out of 5]

the first book i read.............i remember in 6th class

[Kaavia · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's such a good collection of stories- what animals and nature taught Ruskin Bond in his childhood.
You can enjoy reading the stories and poems and have a laugh too!

[Tabitha Reji · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my first Ruskin Bond book. I like the way he uses simple settings and real life narrations with extreme detail.

[Meharbaan Singh]

i think that it will be a phata poster story

[Siva Surjith · Rating 5 out of 5]

books ofd Ruskin takes us to trance ...to the age where we will find serene...