Hidden Pool - Bond, Ruskin
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Ruskin Bond's first novel for children in a whole new look! Laurie, an English boy in a small hill town in India, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anil, the son of a local cloth merchant, and Kamal, an orphan who sells buttons and shoelaces but dreams of going to college. One day the three discover a secret pool on the mountainside, and it is there that they plan their greatest escapade yet-a trek to the Pindari Glacier, where no one from their town has gone before. This newly illustrated edition of Bond's magical tale of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another generation of readers.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Ruskin Bond's first novel for children in a whole new look! Laurie, an English boy in a small hill town in India, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anil, the son of a local cloth merchant, and Kamal, an orphan who sells buttons and shoelaces but dreams of going to college. One day the three discover a secret pool on the mountainside, and it is there that they plan their greatest escapade yet-a trek to the Pindari Glacier, where no one from their town has gone before. This newly illustrated edition of Bond's magical tale of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another generation of readers.
Autorenporträt
Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was 17, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has published a number of novellas, short story collections, books of essays and articles, poems, and children's books. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and, the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Bond was born in Kasauli and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He currently resides in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.