Reading level: 1 - 12
years
Paperback: 26
pages
Publisher: White
Falcon Publishing
Published On: 24
October 2018
Language:
English
ISBN:978-9388459143
Price: 199/-
Osito is Arundhati's favourite soft toy. It is white colour
teddy bear. It is also one of her constant companions when she goes on vacation
with her family. Both have travelled many places in India and abroad. They have
been to Melbourne, Singapore, Shimla, Bekal and Udaipur. During her vacation
trips, she has inadvertently misplaced it and later found it, much to her
relief! This story is about one such incident that happened in Udaipur Lake
Palace and how she finds her favourite travel buddy back.
In the summer holidays, Aru went to spend her vacations in a resort
along with her mother. She packed her clothes, shoes and her favourite travel friend
‘Osito’, a teddy bear soft toy. She enjoyed the company of Osito very much and
loved to see different places with it. One fine evening, she realised that she has
lost the toy somewhere in the resort. She started crying. Her mother asked her
to think where she saw Osito last time. She recalled that she forget it in the
playroom. The next day, she ran to the playroom to find Osito. She was glad to
see Osito near the table where she left it yesterday. She picked it. She hugged
it. She promised to herself that she would never lose it again.
When I was author’s age, I loved to play with toys. I had
lots of toys like block building, puzzle solving, word making, snake and
ladder, chess, colourful vegetables and fruits made up of clay, different
miniature animals, a bird that lays eggs, kitchen utensils and cooking range
and many more. Out of these, my favourite toy was a working miniature sewing
machine whose needle moves up and down on moving its handle. Whenever I started
playing I checked and counted all the pieces of my game and after playing game
I checked them again before putting them in the bag. This double check policy had
helped me a lot and I never lost any of my toys anywhere.
One day, I was playing with my toys at my grandmother’s house.
My parents left me there and went to the market for shopping as market was
close to my grandmother’s house than to ours. They told me that they would
return after two hours. Hardly, half an hour had passed then my parents
returned. They asked me to wind up playing and came along them. They told me
that they had some urgent work to do at home so we all would be leaving right
now without wasting a second. I hurriedly packed my toys. And I forgot to count
them before packing.
Next day, when I was playing with the same set of toys I
realised that my sewing machine toy is missing. I was very sad as I liked that
toy very much. In the evening, I went to my grandmother’s house with my
parents. I gloomily told my grandmother about the toy I lost last evening. She
patiently listened to me and then asked me to open the drawer of the table near her bed. On opening it, I was surprised to see my sewing machine in it. I
picked it up and gladly thanked my grandmother. I gave lots of toys out of my
collection to my younger cousins but even now I have that sewing machine toy
with me in remembrance of my grandmother. Later my passion developed into my
career as I did M.Sc. in Clothing and Textiles and taught Fashion Designing in a
reputed college of the town.
Arundhati
Nithiyanandhan is seven years old and lives in Bangalore, India. At such a
young age she has authored two more books namely ‘Likes and Dislikes’ and
‘Aru’s Balcony Garden’. She loves to play in the sand. Her hobby is to paint
colour sketches. She creates stories from her day-to-day incidents. She loves
telling new stories to her father while they both go for a walk in the evening.
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