Frontlist | New books to tell classic children's stories

Frontlist | New books to tell classic children's stories
on Jan 21, 2021

New Delhi, January 20 From Rudyard Kipling to O Henry and from RK Narayan to Enid Blyton, publishing house Hachette India is out with two grand volumes filled with some of the greatest stories ever written for younger and older children. The books, 100 Greatest Stories for Young Children and 50 Greatest Stories for Old Children'', features a wide range of stories from fairy tales, fables, folklore, classic Indian texts and epics written by international and Indian authors. The contributors in these two anthologies are some of the world's finest and most-loved authors including the likes of Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy. The past months have been so devastating in so many ways for children (and their families), stuck at home and suffering from online fatigue. What could be better than giving them a whopping, wonderful package of time-tested super-stories that have delighted and entertained generations of children, to pick and choose from, Vatsala Kaul Banerjee, publisher, Children's & Reference Books, Hachette India said. While the book for younger children is a treasury of fun adventures, fairy tales, fables, folklore and more; the book for older children offers the best of works from super-imaginative H G Wells, adventurous Rudyard Kipling, heart-tugging Munshi Premchand and tongue-in-cheek Sukumar Roy, among others.