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The Cherry Tree

The Cherry Tree

A Short Story in the Popular Puffin Chapter-Book Series for Children by Sahitya Akademi Winning Author (1992) Ruskin Bond, illustrated bedtime tale

Ruskin Bond
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Rakesh plants a cherry seedling in his garden and watches it grow. As seasons go by, the small tree survives heavy monsoon showers, a hungry goat that eats most of the leaves and a grass cutter who splits it into two with one sweep. At last, on his ninth birthday, Rakesh is rewarded with a miraculous sight-the first pink blossoms of his precious cherry tree!

Imprint: India Puffin

Published: Nov/2012

ISBN: 9780143332459 (Paperback)

Length : 72 Pages

MRP : ₹150.00

The Cherry Tree

A Short Story in the Popular Puffin Chapter-Book Series for Children by Sahitya Akademi Winning Author (1992) Ruskin Bond, illustrated bedtime tale

Ruskin Bond

Rakesh plants a cherry seedling in his garden and watches it grow. As seasons go by, the small tree survives heavy monsoon showers, a hungry goat that eats most of the leaves and a grass cutter who splits it into two with one sweep. At last, on his ninth birthday, Rakesh is rewarded with a miraculous sight-the first pink blossoms of his precious cherry tree!

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Ruskin Bond

Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New
Delhi and Simla. 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, novellas (including The Adventures of Rusty and The Room of Many Colours) and more than seventy books
for children.

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and
the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.

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