Books For Beginners
Anju Virmani
Prakriti Ki Pukar by Suman Bajpayi Children’s Book Trust, 2018, 56 pp., 60
November 2018, volume 42, No 11

This book is a collection of four award-winning articles on environment. ‘Tapti Dharti Ilaaj Mange’ and ‘Paryawaran Sanrakshran’ were awarded in a CBT competition in non-fiction category on environment. The other two are taken from an English language book SOS from Nature. ‘Bagh Ki Khoj’ is translated from ‘Tiger’s Trail’ and ‘Kahin Kho Na Jaye Pahad’ from ‘May You Find a Mountain’.

‘Bagh Ki Khoj’ is written by Simran Kaur who visited Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. She describes her life-changing experiences. She dwells on the physical attributes of tigers, their eating habits, different patterns in behaviour of tiger and tigress and finally warns us that the population of tigers is decreasing and chances are there that they will soon be extinct.

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