House of Stories - A Book Club for Children

The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond The Blue Umbrella written by Ruskin Bond is a short and simple read. It is humorous and enriched with values for children. This is a story about ten year old Binyadevi, a mountain girl in the village named Garhwal. She is very courageous and possesses good character strength for her age. Binya is in charge of fetching cows in the evening. One such day she happened to see a pretty blue umbrella among the rich picnickers and fell in love with it. Fortunately for her, the woman who owned the blue umbrella coveted leopard’s claw Binya was wearing on her neck to ward off evil and asked her the same in exchange of the blue umbrella. The pretty blue umbrella became the talk of the village and she went everywhere with it. Some became envious and one man Ram Bharosa, the tea seller coveted it so badly that he made his worker boy to steal it from her. The boy stole it from her, but together along with her brother Bijju managed to get it back f