Spot Krishna in the crowd', 'count the sea creatures', 'name the animals' and many more activities add to the enjoyment of this simply written retelling of Krishna's life. Beautiful, colourful illustrations bring alive his battles with various demons, his victories and the war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas.
The puffin treasury of modern indian stories is a unique collection of stories and excerpts written by master storytellers it represents for the first time the richness and range of writing for children in india during the twentieth century from ruskin bond’s humorous ‘snake trouble’ and vikram seth’s animal fable in verse the elephant and the tragopan’, to salman rushdie’s fantasy haroun and the sea of stories’ and satyajit ray’s gripping tale the hungry septopus’, this anthology has a vibrant mix of styles and forms with spectacular illustrations by a host of the most talented artists working today, this anthology will delight both children and adults contributors paro anand margaret bhatty pankaj bisht ruskin bond anita desai shashi deshpande shama futehally mala marwah arvind krishan mehrotra dhan gopal mukerji meenakshi mukherjee rk narayan premchand sara rai shanta rameshwar rao hemangini ranade satyajit ray salman rushdie bhisham sahni poile sengupta subhadra sen gupta vikram seth khushwant singh kalpana swaminathan