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The Boy and the DrumAuthor: Umesh P NIllustrator: Rajiv EipeRe-level: Seena Antony
Once upon a time there lived a poor woman andher son.
One day, she was going to the market. "What can Ibring for you, dear one?", she asked.
"A drum, mother!! I would love to have a drum!!"He said cheerfully.
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The mother could not afford a drum.
But on her way home, she saw a nice piece of woodand she brought it home for her little boy.
The boy did not know what to do with the piece ofwood. But he took it happily and went out to play.
He sang a happy song.
"I asked for a drum and look what I got!""A lovely piece of wood!""I think my luck is good!"
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Soon he met an old man who was having troublestarting a fire.
"What's wrong grandpa?" he asked.
"Oh I'm trying to cook my food.", replied the oldman. " I really need some dry wood!".
The boy happily gave the old man, his wood.
The old man lit a fire, made some bread and gavethe boy a piece.
The boy skipped along singing.
"My piece of wood, got me some food""A lovely piece of bread!""I think my luck is good!"
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On the way, he met the potter's wife and herwailing baby.
"Why is she crying?", the boy asked.
"She is hungry and I have no food at home.",replied the potter's wife.
The kind boy gave his bread to the woman.
She was so pleased that she gave the boy a largepot.
The boy smiled and went along singing,
"I gave my bread away and look what I got""Such a lovely pot."
"I think my luck is good."
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Soon he met a washerman quarrelling with his wife.Their only pot was broken.
"Now, how will I wash the clothes?" he cried.
The boy decided to give the washerman his pot.
The washerman was so pleased that he gave thekind boy a nice coat.
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This made the little boy smile. He sang,
"I gave away my pot and now I have this grandcoat!"
"I think my luck is good!"
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While reaching the bridge, he saw a man - hurt andshivering in the cold without a shirt.
The boy ran to him and asked him what happened.
The man replied, "I was riding my horse to the citywhen I was robbed. The robbers hurt me and took
everything except my horse."
"Please take my coat", said the little boy." You needthis more than me."
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The man took the coat and thanked the boy. Inreturn the man gave him, his fine riding horse.
The boy took the horse and skipped along singing,
"I gave away my coat and what did I get?""A big fine horse, of course!!"
"I think my luck is good!"
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The boy soon came to a wedding procession.
The groom, the relatives and the wedding bandwith their instruments- everybody looked
unhappy!!
The boy stopped to ask them what the matter was.
Their horse had not come and the bride was waitingand if nothing was done the groom was going to
miss his own wedding!
The boy, kind as ever, offered his horse to thegroom.
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What will today bring?Author: Chrissi NerantziIllustrator: Gail Spencer
About the story and this book...This open picture book was created to raise awareness of children in need and find ways to help them.Experiences in the family of the author and current traumatic situations in many parts of the world, triggeredthe writing of the story as a response, a personal voice that was united with the illustrator's voice andbecame this picture book.
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What will today bring?Chrissi Nerantzi and Gail Spencer
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Something is burning my eyelids.I open my eyes and look around. Where am I?Sea, sun and hot sand. A beach?What is all that noise?
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How did I get here? Where are Mummy and Daddy? Where is Hope?The noise is getting louder and louder.I want to go home.I close my eyes and imagine.
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It all came back to me.Broken houses. Broken people.Trying to swim, in the water, clinging on… a piece of wood.Mummy, Daddy? Hope?
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What happened next?I can't remember.Who are these people? Why do I not understand them?A little girl gives me her teddy.
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I am holding on to teddy. With both hands.I am looking around. And around.Where is my Mummy? Daddy? Hope?My eyes fill up, like the sea. They become the sea.
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Where are we going?I am in a room with pictures. Happy pictures.Mountains of toys. Clothes. Food.Girls and boys with sad eyes.
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Where are Mummy and Daddy? Hope?I still feel their warmth.But they are not here.I run out of the room.
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I keep running and running.No familiar faces. None.People are crying, others laughing.“We made it,” they shout.
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I hold on to teddy.I hold on and look around.It is just me.Nobody I know.
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Nobody.Suddenly a familiar voice reached my ear...I turned around.My eyes lit up.
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I run. With teddy. It was Hope.My heart started beating again.She squeezes me hard and doesn't let go.We look out to the sea.
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Hope shows me a picture.We just sit there. In silence. With teddy.It got dark and then light again.“What will today bring?” I ask Hope…
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My City, My DogsAuthor: Abodh ArasIllustrator: Sumedha SahPhotographer: Hashim Badani
Mumbai has many people, trainsand taxis. It also has many happydogs who live on its streets.
Let's take a walk down its manybylanes and meet the city’sstreet dogs.
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Traffic loves to help the trafficpolice.
When someone breaks a rule,Traffic chases the vehicle andstands next to it. No one can getaway under his watch.
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Chickoo lives by a movietheatre. He eats and plays withthe security guards.
On cold nights, Chickoo snugglesinto a poncho that his guard-friends made for him.
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Periappa’s favourite food is idliand dosa.
Every day, he visits threedifferent restaurants forbreakfast, lunch, anddinner! Periappa is always eatingor dreaming about food.
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Champi lives near a big groundwhere children play cricket andfootball.
Mauryaji, a sugarcane juiceseller, found her. At that time, hewas taking a headmassage, which is calledchampi. That is how she got hername!
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As a puppy, Hole was rescuedfrom a rat hole by a manager of achurch. So they decided tocall him Hole.
Hole sits on the theatre steps,wagging his tail and greetingmoviegoers.
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Captain lives in a park whereSachin Tendulkar playedcricket. He loves to run.
Every year, he trots alongside thepeople who run in the Mumbaimarathon. Captain even finishesthe race. No one gives him amedal, but he is happy with abiscuit!
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Bogie is fascinated by trains.
She was found living in a first-class ladies compartment of atrain. Bogie had boarded thetrain, looking for adventure. Butshe did not have a ticket.
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Kalu is usually exploring differentparts of his city. He doesn’t evenneed a map.
Some days, he walks by the sea,and on other days he heads tothe railway station. One day, hejumped onto a train, whenfollowing a friend.
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Kali loves to play withchildren. She enjoys it when theycuddle her. She even lets them siton her back!
Kali is looked after by a familythat lives on the streets.
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The Dogs of Mumbai
It is hard to imagine Mumbai’s roads without street dogs. These stray dogs, as well as the ones you met in this book, are looked after and fed by thousands of people across the city. They could be the neighbourhood shoeshine man, the policeman,the street vendor, the street dweller or even people living in high-rise buildings. The dogs have names like Kalu, Tommy, Julie or are even named after film stars such as Aishwarya, Salman and Shahrukh. The Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD) has been looking after the medical care and vaccination of these stray animals for over twenty years.
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The pictures in this book have been created using a combination of illustrations and photographs.
The illustrations have been made by Sumedha Sah.The photographs have been taken by Hashim Badani.
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Images Attributions:Cover page: A dog sleeping around Gateway Of India, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2018. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0license. Page 2: Two dogs smiling at each other, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.Page 3: A dog standing with a traffic policeman on a zebra crossing, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Releasedunder CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: A dog sitting with security guard on a pavement, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved.Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: A dog day dreaming about food , by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved.Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 6: A dog stretching in front of a sugarcane vendor, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rightsreserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7: Dog being petted outside a theatre, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rightsreserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: A dog running with joggers in a field, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rightsreserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: A dog looking at people on a railway platform, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Somerights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 10: A dog sitting on a ladies coach train, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Somerights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 11: Girls playing with a dog on the road, by Sumedha Sah , Hashim Badani © Pratham Books, 2017. Somerights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.
PLOP falls the mangoAuthor: Sarvendra VikramIllustrator: Eshita MunshiTranslator: Pratham Books
A pigeon, a rabbit and a squirrel wereplaying. A mango fell down from thetree - PLOP!
The pigeon flew away. The rabbitjumped away. The squirrel climbed upthe tree.
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A tortoise and a crab were in the pondnearby. They crawled up but did not seethe mango. It remained there on theground.
A cuckoo flew down. It liked the mangoand ate it up. The seed was left behind.
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A rat came out of its hole. It triedpulling the seed into the hole. Just thenan owl hooted.
The rat ran back into the hole. The seedremained there.
Days passed. The mango seedremained there.
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A monkey swung abouton the branches of trees.A nightingale sangthrough the day.
Bear does not bathe.Bear's hair is full of lice.Bear has such long longnails.
This made the bearangry. He climbed up thetree to catch thenightingale. Thenightingale flew away.
The seed remained there.
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A duck came along andpecked at the seed.
A goat came and triedchewing it.
A crow ate insects off abuffalo's ear as it saton its horn. A spider sliddown its web.
The seed remained there.
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A mongoose was in thebush nearby. It came outand licked the seed.
A lion and a lioness weregoing to the pond todrink water. They saw themango seed. Theywalked away.
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The wind blew. The seedgot covered with leavesand dust.
And then one day, cloudsgathered in the sky.
There was lightning andthunder - BOOM BOOM,KABOOM!
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It started raining.
The pigeon, the rabbit, the squirrel, thetortoise, the crab, the monkey, the bear,the duck, the buffalo, the crow and thetrees all got wet.
The lion and the lioness got wet. Theseed got wet.
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The elephant heard loudthunder and came out ofthe water. He trumpeted loudly andshook a tree with histrunk. All the parrots flewaway.
A hen walked by. A bigleaf formed an umbrellaon her head. A beetle wassitting on the leaf. Thehen began to peck at theseed. The leaf slippeddown. The beetle fell off.It climbed on to theelephant's foot.
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One day, a tiny plantcame out of the seed. Thepigeon, the rabbit andthe squirrel saw it. Thetiny plant was brown incolour.
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The plant saw the goatand got scared. The goatsaw the lion and thelioness coming back fromthe pond and ran away.One day, a squirrel sawthat the leaves on thattiny plant had turnedgreen.What do you think willhappen next?
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Story Attribution:This story: PLOP falls the mango is translated by Pratham Books . The © for this translation lies with Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released underCC BY 4.0 license. Based on Original story: 'आम गरा', by Sarvendra Vikram . © Pratham Books , 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.
Other Credits:'PLOP falls the mango' has been published on StoryWeaver by Pratham Books. The development of this book has been supported by Parag, an initiative of TataTrusts. www.prathambooks.org
Illustration Attributions:Cover page: Squirrel, butterfly and bird, by Eshita Munshi © Eshita Munshi, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 2: Rabbit runs,pigeon flies, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 3: Crab and tortoise, by Eshita Munshi ©Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: Mouse, owl and seed, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rightsreserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: Monkey and bear, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0license. Page 6: Goat chews flower, crow pecks buffalo, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7:Mongoose and lions, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: Rabbit scares from lightening, byEshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: Animals in the rain, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books,2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 10: Elephants uproots tree, by Eshita Munshi © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved.Released under CC BY 4.0 license.