Too much trouble

by Ruskin Bond

Stories set in the HImalayas, fascinating on culture, people. humorous

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Childrens

67 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Vaibhav · Rating 4 out of 5]

Animals are predictable, Humans never.

Too much trouble is a collection of three short stories by Mr. Ruskin Bond. We all are familiar with the kind of relationship that Bond shared with animals. It was due to the fact that his grandfathers maintained a kind of Zoo in his backyard when he was child and used to live with him in Dehra. Somewhere in his stories we have read the about the monkey and snakes creating all sort of nuisance and troubles in his bungalow.
This short book is a collection of three of his stories that are -
1. Ghost Trouble
2. Monkey Trouble
3. Snake Trouble

Its the 1940s. With prets knocking off the sun helmets off the heads of Sahibs and officials , creating a ruckus all over the house with all sorts of mischief you can imagine, pythons and snakes wriggling their way up the picnic baskets, tales of Tutu - the monkey running away with engagement rings, characters such as Aunty Ruby and uncle Benji adding up the spice in these fashionable animal tales this book brings out our innocent childhood out in the open.

Yet Bond comes again with his bumpy, funny half an hour read to cheer up your day once again.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection includes ghost trouble, snake trouble and monkey trouble stories of the author.

[Maanya Gupta · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was quite fun. Prets,monkey,a funny parrot, Uncle Ben and the snake were lol’s

[Priti Puri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Too much trouble by the Pret, python and the monkey is a comical book.

[Lata · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny stories for kids about non-humans- a naughty poltergeist, Pret, a monkey called Tutu, a parrot and a python.

[Harshit Gupta · Rating 3 out of 5]

one of Bond's not so good books. the writing is as it always is, but found a couple of edit issues. nonetheless, as interesting for a bond fan as most of his books are.

[Sanjukta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Certainly not a great read - this funny little book of not over 70 pages reminded me of my English textbook from school which had lessons on monkeys, snakes and ghosts residing in peepal trees.