Boimela Picks: 'Super Fun Stories that Rhyme Too!'

Book: A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland 

Writer: Amirul Islam

Genre: Rhyming Stories

Target Reader: Children

Publisher: Soptodingha (Book Fair Stall# 521)

1st Published: December 2016

©: Writer

Dedicated to: Poet Mamun Sarwar

Cover: Niaz Chy. Tuli

Illustration: Arup Mazumder

Price: 150/- (At Book Fair: 110/-)

ISBN: 978-984-92273-0-4

Amirul Islam -- a scholar of Bengali Children's Literature is publishing a book of 6 rhyming stories, this year at the Boimela -- 'A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland'!

Let's talk about one story and find out what makes this book so awesome. The first story is about a little boy named 'Chhana' and his grandpa (Nana) who owns the world's weirdest zoo!

Only the ones who are as cool as Chhana and as fun-loving as his Nana will get a ticket and enter the zoo. The zoo has a red coloured Tiger with a dozen legs, with a black Lion sleeping 19 hours a day in the next cage. (The lion has a white coloured heart and four horns on his head!)

Amirul Islam -- a teacher of Bengali Children's Literature is publishing a book of 6 rhyming stories, this year at the Boimela -- 'A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland'! Photo: Collected

While reading this book, you will also discover the massive elephants that, unfortunately, have no trunks. Instead, they have hands just like us and eat snacks all day. There are puppies with long tails like cows and sugar syrup sipping tiny Girrafes too!

And just when you think, things can't get any stranger, you end up exploring the Bird Zone.

To read the rest of the stories (that rhyme and are as strange as this one!) collect the book from the Boimela and read it yourself – just like I did!

Anik Khan is a journalist and a poet.