Rusty The Boy From The Hills
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Rusty the Boy from the Hills
Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives with his grandparents in pre-Independence Dehra Dun. Though he is not the adventurous himself, the strangest and most extraordinary things keep happening around him. The house in Dehra is full of strange creatures. Rusty has to deal with everything from his grandfather’s pet python to the ever-inventive Uncle Ken. Visiting his father in wartime Java, Rusty narrowly escapes enemy bombardment, and survives a plane crash in the Arabian Sea. Back in India, he spends his time encountering a ghost in the garden and recreating his grandmother’s youthful days from an old photograph. Then, something totally unexpected happens and Rusty is forced to leave Dehra, his future uncertain ... This volume of Rusty stories, the first in a series, traces Rusty’s development from early childhood to his early teens and is a riveting read for younger and older children alike.
Rusty, the Boy from the Hills
For several decades now, Ruskin's novel about Rusty an anglo-indian boy growing up in pre-independence Dehra Dun have entertained young children. All the Rusty's stories will be soon available from Puffin in three volumes. The first volume Rusty: The boy from the hills has th boy tackling his grandfather narcisstic python, escaping from bombardment in wartime Java, and making friends with an unlikely princess in a lonely tower. A riveting read for younger and older alike
Adventures of Rusty
From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra; surrounded by an assortment of odd animals; people and relatives; to when he gets sent away to school; then makes his way to London and becomes a writer; Rusty's had more adventures than we can count. The Adventures of Rusty brings together his best; funniest; most exciting escapades. In these pages there's Toto; the monkey that travelled in a bag in a train; an encounter with a leopard; life as a young writer in faraway London; and the return home to roots that were always loved and never forgotten. An evergreen classic of children's writing in India; Rusty's stories will be enjoyed like never before in this omnibus edition.