The Magic of the Lost Temple + Grandparents' Bag of Stories +The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories Set of 3 Books

Name : The Magic of the Lost Temple + Grandparents' Bag of Stories +The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories Set of 3 Books

Author : Sudha Murty

Book Format : Paperback

Edition : 1st edition

Genre : Comics & Mangas

ISBN : 9780143451846

Language : English

Pages : 101-200 Pages

Publish Year : 2019

Publisher : puffin

Reading age : 9 - 12 Years

Sub Genre : Contemporary Fiction Novels Books

Grandparents' Bag of Stories (Book Review) : Lockdown lessons for the young

Once again, Sudha Murty, with her maternal vibe, sits down to her young readers and opens her bag of stories. This time, the storyteller pulls out a utopian lockdown handbook for children. When the future generation sits down to uncover the year of the pandemic, Murty's Grandparents' Bag of Stories will reveal what a day in the lockdown amid the global pandemic looked like. Published by Puffin Books, the book is second in her series of grandparents' stories, the first being Grandma's Bag of Stories.

The parents, reeling under pressures of working from home, decide to send their children to the grandparents' home right before the lockdown and the rest is all 'a story'. As one flips pages, Murty's spell deepens and one travels down memory lane, into juvenescence. A summer dream blossoming in grandparents' backyards begins. Each of her stories comes with an important life lesson for the children. Her stories of rice and wheat teach one the importance of foodgrains during troubled times like that of the lockdown. The Magic Beans teaches not to be greedy, The Goddess of Luck teaches the importance of good karma, The Mouse that Became a Mouse tells us to accept what has been given to us, A Word of Honour tells one to be true to his word, A Ship on the Land teaches one that skills and talent matter more than ap

Country of Origin : India