SAMY'S STORIES FOR KIDS

This All-Colour Storybook contains as many as 25 original short stories written for kids who love to read fiction and/or to hear stories read out to them. All the stories carry fascinating titles, each distinct from the other. Packed with exciting episodes and events of adventure, misadventure, fun, fancy, fantasy, clever escapes, risky escapades, planned rescues, etc., the whole book, from start to finish, will prove to be a compelling good read. Which one kid would miss watching in their mind’s eye a monkey in khaki uniform clearing a letterbox? ... a clever dog trying to post letters by standing on a buffalo’s back?… a sympathetic frog helping a dreamy black ant to cross over to the other side of a pond by carrying it atop a crooked twig? ... a swing in the hall of a locked house with a beautiful green parrot perching and a pedigree dog (who, moments ago, wanted to kill the bird) rocking it? … And the funny figure of one Kuppandi, a South Indian (an Oliver Hardy lookalike), who figures in as many as five stories in this volume?... His queer ideas of showing respect, about filling out forms, understanding of problems, notions of cheapness, etc. will not fail to evoke hilarity. Why should he (Kuppandi) take to his heels calling out “Bhairava! Bhairava!” after touching, reverentially though, a sleeping dog’s body…? What’s his defence when questioned as to why he chose to put the applicant’s birth time height and weight in the application form he filled out…? Why did he want to use an axe to get rid of the gear stick of the bus on which he was travelling…? What prompted him to buy four platform tickets when he went all alone to the railway station to receive his master’s sister and her two children who were arriving by train…? Why did he think it cheaper to courier a letter from a distant company while there was a courier service available for the same fee closer by…? Curious to know? Just read A Funny Misadventure, Height and Weight, Kuppandi’s First Bus Ride, Kuppandi Buys Four Platform Tickets and Kuppandi’s Idea of Cheapness.. Then there are two stories here in direct contradiction to the two legendary tales The Fox And The Grapes and Slow And Steady Wins the Race. Now, In the first changed version The Grapes Were Sweet this Time But, the legendary fox is shown as a clever animal who, knowing the grapes are really sweet, hits upon an idea to get at and eat the grapes, but who cheats the buffalo only to get punished in the end. In Slow and Steady versus Steady and Swift (changed version of the second story), the legendary winner, the slow tortoise, is shown as the loser this time as he, steady though, is too haughty to acknowledge the ability of the rabbit who could choose to be swift and steady too. Then, the idea of planned escapes and rescues such as … A mouse outwitting a cat by entering the mousetrap with the latter’s permission only to escape … A pet mynah saving herself by making a fool of her jealous companion, a pet dog … A smart school kid abducted and held to ransom, planning his own rescue without paying any ransom money … In a bid to escape from a hungry cat, an intelligent mouse, who falls into an empty narrow-necked metallic water pot, making the feline knock it down and roll it from side to side so that … A village kid kidnapped and put into a gunny bag for transportation, making a daring escape by using a small screwdriver… Simple and commonplace, as they may seem, these escapes and rescues are sure to make suspenseful reading. Then, such enlightening and ennobling facts of life as -- Three runaway domesticated animals living a hard life in a part of a jungle, when asked by a genie to make their personal wishes, choosing to make only one unique collective wish … A school kid taking a fat green frog (caught with the fish hook stuck in its mouth) to the Vet and bringing it back safe to have it released back into the waters … An honest kid realizing that honesty is impossible without sagacity in such a situation as the one faced by him … The husband of a loudmouth changing his ways to deal with her to save his moneys … A crocodile lying on a river bank with its large mouth wide open and a pair of water birds moving in and out picking its teeth without fear… A thirsty fox throwing an innocent frog into a wayside well to quench his thirst … Frogs dancing around two small boys after retrieving his gold ring from a well … Homecoming of a dreamy ant that wanted to hop, swim and fly … A school kid failing to ask his magician grandpa (who he believes turns sand into sugar) this simple question: Why then are we poor and buying sugar from the grocer like everybody else, grandpa? ... A mother rabbit, who used to forbid her young one from associating with crows, later sitting to watch the sight of them playing together … All such episodic events abound in this book of 25 short stories!