These two stories, set in northern India, feature two impressive and endangered creatures - the tiger and the golden eagle. An old tiger is hunted by local villagers when hunger drives him to start killing their buffalo, and young Jai has to try and protect his flock of lambs from the predatory designs of a fierce and powerful eagle.;Ruskin Bond is a former winner of the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, and his other books include "Earthquake", "The Adventures of Rama and Sita" and the Walker Double "Snake Trouble / Ghost Trouble".

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1994 by Walker Books Ltd .

Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Simla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley and A Flight of Pigeons) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.