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Tigers for Dinner- Tall Tales by Jim Corbett’s Khansama
by Ruskin Bond's
Description:
Thus starts Mehmoud’s stories about working as khansama,or cook,for the great shikari Jim Corbett.As deft with his stories as he is with koftas,lamb chops,pies and milkshakes,Mehmoud has a tall tale for every occasion.From wrestling with a cobra in his bed,being carried away into the river bu a muggermuch,to when a tiger came looking for the cook,these stories leave little Ruskin spellbound.Join mehmoud in the kitchen as he cooks up one delecate meal after another,and gobble down his delicious stories of man-eating tigers,incompetent maharajas,missing kitchen boys and hunted pillows-all brought vividly to life by Sunaina Coelho’s captivating illustrations.
Reading Guide:
Children Read Themselves: 10-14
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About The Author
Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children’s books, many of which have been published by Penguin India.He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies.He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.
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