by Sneha Sharma | Aug 25, 2020 | Children's Literature, My Stories
Pictures by MAURICE SENDAK | English to Hindi Stories
To add Story Over My Pillow’s own flavour, we have decided to read aloud this wonderful story by also simultaneously translating it into Hindi for our children who have Hindi as their first language!
Kids can be as imaginative as a dream. They can come up with any idea and are all game to make it come true. This sweet story of a little bear being playfully mischievous wants to land to the moon with just a..guess what?- His Space Helmet!!
Often parents find recluse in these innocent tantrums of their child making them blush with pride and sometimes a hearty smile..:)
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by Sneha Sharma | Jul 30, 2020 | Children's Literature
1. For the joy of experiencing Tom’s delightful adventures, the wild and vivid imagination of a teenage psychology and the deeply felt young emotions thus reproduced.
(The brutes – Tom, Huck and Joe – cook up a recipe to attend their own funeral sermon!)
‘The convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.’ (convulsion – uncontrollable fit)
2. To marvel at the youthful spirit and Tom’s authentic relationships with his Aunt Polly and Becky – his lady love.
The brute of a boy, the crazy adventurer but a world-class soul of a friend and a lover, Tom Sawyer is a timeless hero. With his signature masterstroke of liberating philosophies and satire, Mark Twain in his novel paints the world of Tom in delicious metaphors we can’t resist to savour.
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