The Incredible Present 🖋by Harriet Castor

📖This book is about Lily Mack and the stupefying present her parents mailed on her Birthday. Her parents far from home who are explorers created 'The Anything Bag' which was given to her as her birthday present.

🎨🖌The illustrations in this book reminds me of  watching an old Hollywood movie like HOME ALONE. The book is hard binded with the picture of Lily in Witch's costume making potions.

🔖The things she thought of for the gift her parents would give her is really every child's dream. Would you like an ice cream plant with chocolate, vanila, and strawberry flowers for your birthday🍦.

 🔖 Everything  Lily asks 'the Anything Bag' turns into humongous mistake. Instead of getting a witch's kit with real spells in it she got a witch's cat with real smells in it. 🤩
At long last Lily's parents decided to be inventors which meant they are back home ...to stay forever.

The Kashmiri Storyteller 🖋 by Ruskin Bond

🖋This book is a collection of stories by Ruskin Bond told by an old Kashmiri storyteller to a group of children at his bazaar.

Guess what's so gripping about this book?

Children in this story are all REAL ... Now they are in their 50's and 60's. Ruskin Bond had kept this script in his trunk for a long time because the publishers were not interested in the protagonist, our  Kashmiri Storyteller and his listeners.

🔖The stories in the book are truly astonishing. A few stories are The Hill of the Forty Brothers, In the Land of the Peris and Prince Shamseer Jung. The stories all have something different in each one of them. For example one of the stories explains the horrids of caste and religion while another says about a ghost who made a perfect man, a bent-up-double beggar.

🧒I would recommend this book for ages 7 and above.

And I wish.. One day I could  listen to a Kashmiri Storyteller in Reality. Do you know that Ruskin Bond is now  85 years old? He still visits Cambridge Book Depot in Mussoorie....Hope to meet him one day.💙