Author: Upendrakishore Raychowdhury
Publisher: Publications Division
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 81
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123001878
Description
This book for children consists of 27 stores, originally written in Bengali by the popular writer Upendrakishore Raychowdhury. Each story revolves around either a bird or an animal. Men and women if at all, are playing minor roles. The author has given voice to the birds and animals, making the stores lively and entertaining.
The stories, originally written in Bengali by the popular writer Upendrakishore Raychowdhury, have been translated into English by Chameli Bose.
This book consists of 27 stories:
1. The tale of the tailor-bird
2. The king and the tailor-bird
3. Narahari Das
4. Uncle tiger and nephew fox
5. The foolish weaver and the fox
6. The old woman with lice on
Her head
7. The old woman who ate rice
Soaked In Water
8. The sparrow and the crow
9. The liger over a tiger
10. The tiger rode a palanquin
11. Buddhu’s father
12. The foolish tiger
13. The tiger’s cook
14. Tuni-Bird and the barber
15. The sparrow and the tiger
16. The wicked tiger
17. Tiger, the bride-groom
18. The foolish crocodile
19. The learned fox
20. The fox, a witness
21. The fox-cubs who fed on
Tigers
22. The fruit of sugar-cane
23. The fox inside an elephant
24. Majantali sarkar
25. The ant, the elephant and the
26. Brahmin’s servant
27. The ant and his wife