Grandfather's Private Zoo [Paperback]

"The tiger approached the bars and allowed Grandfather to put both hands around his head. Grandfather stroked the tiger’s forehead and tickled his ear, and, whenever he growled, smacked him across the mouth, which was his old way of keeping him quiet."

Animals can teach us more about love than we like to admit. They can often be exactly what you need after a long, hard day. A dog greeting you at the door, a cat curling up next to you in bed, are joys that are incomparable. They are intuitive, large hearted and often can be extremely amusing and can spark curiosity in humans.

InGrandfather’s Private Zoo,Ruskin Bondbrings together stories and personal essays that speak to this animal–human equation. He takes us into the world of talking crows, tigers who become your best friends, monkeys with an affinity for pearls and many more such amusing, often emotional, tales!

Ruskin Bondis the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These includeThe Room on the Roof(winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize),A Flight of Pigeons,The Night Train at Deoli,Time Stops at Shamli,Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra(winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award),Angry River,The Blue Umbrella,Rainin the Mountains,Roads to Mussoorie,A Little Night Music,Tigers for Dinner,Tales of Fosterganj, andA Gathering of Friends.

Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.