Tigers for Dinner : Tall Tales by Jim Corbetts Khansama

If you have never read a Ruskin Bond ever before, then maybe it is time you start. Maybe it is also time that you read more than one book written by him. If anything, you will only become a huge fan of his writing and the stories he has to tell. Tigers for Dinner: Tall Tales by Jim Corbetts Khansama is his new book published by Red Turtle books. Though it is for children, it could be read by people of any age group. As the title goes, this small book has seven stories as narrated by Ruskins cook (who was once the Khansama of Jim Corbett). The stories necessarily do not come across as being true (of course given the subtitle of them being Tall tales), however they are extremely entertaining.

Bonds stories are set in a time that most young readers of today would not be able to relate to. Having said that, the books appeal lies in its simplicity of story-telling & the connection between Rusty and the cook. The writing is sparse and rightly so as needed for a book which has beautiful illustrations. This is what propels the book. The simplicity is what lends it the unique Ruskin Bond touch. A book which can be read in less than half an hour, but worth every single minute spent on it.

Description

Beautifully illustrated and richly imagined, Ruskin Bonds new book will entertain children and adults alike. Did you see him shoot a tiger? I asked. Oh, many times, said Mehmoud. A tiger a weekthat was nothing to Carpet-sahib! Did the tigers come to the house, or did you go looking for them? Thus starts Mehmouds stories about working as khansama, or cook, for the great shikari Jim Corbett. As deft with his stories as he is with koftas, lamb chops, pies and milkshakes, Mehmoud has a tall tale for every occasion.

From wrestling with a cobra in his bed, being carried away into the river by a muggermuch, to when a tiger came looking for the cook, these stories leave little Ruskin spellbound.

Join Mehmoud in the kitchen as he cooks up one delectable meal after another and gobble down his delicious stories of man-eating tigers, incompetent maharajas, missing kitchen boys and haunted pillows, all brought vividly to life by Sunaina Coelhos captivating illustrations.