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Rusty And The Leopard

(Paperback)

Ruskin Bond, Ruskin Bond,

Penguin Random House India (Publisher)

Published

2014

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By: Ruskin Bond, Ruskin Bond | Publisher: Penguin Random House India | Released: 01 Nov 2014

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Rusty’s adventures in the Doon valley and the Garhwal hills
Rusty, having run away from his guardian’s home, is now trying to define
his identity as he lives with the Kapoor family, tutoring their son Kishen
and occupying the room on the roof. Soon, he becomes close to Kishen
and, in the company of Meena Kapoor, begins to come into his own as an
individual. Then tragedy strikes—Meena’s death devastates Rusty, and
he leaves Dehra Dun. Rusty and Kishen take to the open road, and their
adventures accumulate as they tramp through the Doon valley and the
Garhwal hills. His time on the road allows Rusty to decide what he really
wants to do and by the end of the book he is preparing for a trip to London,
dreaming of becoming a writer.
Full of incident as well as introspection, this is a book older children will
thoroughly enjoy.

About the Author

Born in Kasauli in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountains and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his ‘total contribution to children’s literature’ in 2013 and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.