Lodhran Ki Khatti Meethi Bakriyan is a book written by Sami Mustafa and published by Bookgroup. Designed for young readers, the book provides a fun read and has colourful illustrations to keep children engaged.
The story focuses on a young village girl (Saba), her goats and her family and her life with them. Saba is a carefree girl who lives with her parents, grandmother, her five siblings, her mother’s buffalo, her grandmother’s nine hens and her own goats, whom she has named herself. Saba’s dad works at a mango field and during the mango season, everyone in her family works on the field, including her five goats, who help clean the field by eating up all the leaves and the mangoes dropped on the ground and she herself separates the small mangoes from the big ones and counts them.
You might have been thinking that Saba has learnt counting in school. Wrong! Saba does go to school but she is least interested in the class. Rather than learning to count in school, she is more interested in counting the mangoes on the trees, the eggs of her grandmother’s hens and the kittens in her school. Saba enthusiastically listens to stories that her grandmother often tells her at night. She says that “one day ill write a story on my 5 goats.”
The story is a lesson to young readers to not only be kind towards humanity but also towards animals.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2011.
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A good title for primary children.
awwww..sounds like fun.. it reminded me of sufi tabassum, dunno why :)