PurplePitara

2019 Ended on a perfect note, nippy days and a beautiful, heartwarming tale about a giant and his little friend Sophie by Roald Dahl. It wouldn’t be exaggerating if I’d say that I fell in love with this book. In the dead of the night, when BFG snatches away Sophie she is terrified, but soon she learns that he is a harmless, children loving, snozzcumber eating adorable giant, who is bullied and ridiculed by other giants in the giant country. So, what does this giant, who does not eat Human beans do when other giants are all busy gobbling either Turks who taste like Turkey or from Panama who tastes like hats or the English who taste wonderfully like crodscollop do? He drinks delicious bubbly Frobscottle tasting of vanilla and cream with just the faintest taste of raspberries on the edge of the flavour and then he Whizzpopps.  His favourite pastime is to catch dreams, bottle them, mix them into a wonderful and happy dream and blow them into the room of the childr...

A wonderful book about Ruben David and his immense love and respect for animals -wild and domestic alike. Being a granddaughter of a forest conservator I have grown up on stories and incidents of wildlife. Whenever I used to spend vacations at my grandparents' place, it was a ritual, every evening, I’d be sprawled on the huge swing, he sitting ever so majestically on his chair on the porch and he would tell me fascinating stories. Some which were related to him and some to his friends. This book took me back to those wonderful days where I could imagine him narrating these beautiful stories to me.  Also, recently I came to know that certain stuffed ducks, which belonged to nanaji and are now at my maternal place were in fact gifted by Ruben David, founder of Ahmedabad zoo, to my nanaji and that somehow made this book more special to me. My Father’s Zoo by Esther David has described heartfelt incidents between Ruben David and animals. The way he could fearlessly walk into...