Children’s Story Book-II: Children's Story Book, #2

By Pritish Prabhu

Winchester Publications presents the successor to the #1 best seller book for children, with more entertaining, exciting and witty stories. This book, like the previous one contains 8 wonderfully illustrated stories to kindle the imagination of children. Take yet another step in inculcating the habit of reading among your children. Educate your little ones, while keeping them entertained.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Winchester Publications
• Release date: Aug 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386667476

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Children’s Story Book-II

By Pritish Prabhu

Published by

Winchester Publications

Goa, India 403601

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Table of Contents

Maid saves a prince

The Cake is for whom

The Prettiest Mousie

Why was the mosquito created

The Mosquito and an Otter

The Greedy Girl

The Girl who killed the Tiger

Ali the thief

Maid saves a prince

Central India is the home of brave Rajputs. Even to this day, these men are known for their courage and valour in times of danger and calamity. Their villages, towns and even cities are built on the edge of precipices of hiss and mountains. The very landscape is hostile to them. The climate is extreme both in summer and in winter. Food is scarce and rainfall is scanty. Added to all these, from time immemorial these intrepid people always lived in the shadow of war. To the north, the powerful kings of Ahmednagar were a constant source of worry. To the east, the mighty Mughal emperors ruled from Delhi to Agra. To the south lay the kingdom of Vijaynagar which plundered the defenceless towns and cities of the Rajputs. Indeed these people were always at war with one enemy or another for many centuries.

In the sixteenth century, the little kingdom of Mewar was ruled by a Rajput king whose name was Raj Singh. Udai Singh was the only son of Raj Singh when his son was three years old, Raj Singh died of wounds he received in a battle. According to the custom of the Rajputs of those days, Udai Singh’s mother burned herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. Before her self-immolation, she entrusted her only son, Udai Singh to a palace maid. Her name was Moti. This faithful maid took an oath