Beautiful and bright, soft and soothing—there are colours all around us, only if we stop to look at them. The bright blue sky, the dark green leaves, the happy pink of the candyfloss. Sometimes colours appear and disappear—like the sweeping yellow of a train’s lights. And sometimes colours are invisible, yet we can see them! Like the wind that teases colours from a leaf, or the rain that washes everything clean and makes them shinier.
Everyone’s favourite, Ruskin Bond, shows us the colours that surround us and make our world so beautiful—a beauty we can see even as we sleep, in our dreams!
Ruskin Bond is the author of numerous novellas, shortstory collections and nonfiction books, many of them classics. Among them are When I Was a Boy, Lone Fox Dancing, The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, and A Book of Simple Living. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Ambika Karandikar is an illustrator, Bharatnatyam dancer and official garden ambassador to butterflies, birds and a team of cats. She has been drawing ever since she can remember and loves to illustrate for children.
Beautiful and bright, soft and soothing—there are colours all around us, only if we stop to look at them. The bright blue sky, the dark green leaves, the happy pink of the candyfloss. Sometimes colours appear and disappear—like the sweeping yellow of a train’s lights. And sometimes colours are invisible, yet we can see them! Like the wind that teases colours from a leaf, or the rain that washes everything clean and makes them shinier.
Everyone’s favourite, Ruskin Bond, shows us the colours that surround us and make our world so beautiful—a beauty we can see even as we sleep, in our dreams!
Ruskin Bond is the author of numerous novellas, shortstory collections and nonfiction books, many of them classics. Among them are When I Was a Boy, Lone Fox Dancing, The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, and A Book of Simple Living. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Ambika Karandikar is an illustrator, Bharatnatyam dancer and official garden ambassador to butterflies, birds and a team of cats. She has been drawing ever since she can remember and loves to illustrate for children.
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