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 The blue umbrella by Ruskin bond book review  The blue umbrella " She walked home through the darkening lawn, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and heeded to her, and the mountains were glad."     Title- The Blue Umbrella   Author- Ruskin Bond  Pages-( 80)   Standing-5/5     ⛱️ What a pleasurable short read it was!  I absolutely loved it.     ⛱️ This beautiful tale is set in the hills of Garhwal. Binya who lives in a vill with her family, was wandering around when she finds a group of picnickers. One of the lady had a blue and a veritably beautiful marquee which attracted Binya. They gave her the marquee in exchange for her leopard's claw pendent.  ⛱️ This blue marquee brings so important happiness to her that wherever she goes, she noway leaves the marquee. All the townies were surprised to see such an elegant marquee with Binya. A shopkeeper' Ram bharosa' was eyeing on her prized possession. Will the marquee get stolen? Will it be destroyed?     ⛱

 Best Ruskin bond books  Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi, and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, which was written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays, and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley and A Flight of Pigeons) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family. Room on the Roof by Ruskin bond  A classic in a coming-of-age story that has held generations of compendiums magical! Rusty, a sixteen- time-old Anglo- Indian boy, is orphaned and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part of Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty run