Rabindranath Tagore
Discover the true story of Rabindranath Tagore, the boy who didn't like school and grew up to write songs that whole countries sing.
Little Rabi grew up in a big, busy house in Calcutta, full of music and books. He found school dull, but he loved to watch the garden and the sky, and when he was about eight he began to write poems about clouds, rivers and rain.
He grew up to write poems, stories and more than two thousand songs. He opened a school where children learned under the trees, won the Nobel Prize as the first person from Asia to do so, began painting in his sixties, and wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.
The book ends with "What Rabindranath taught us": six lessons from his life, each beside the moment it comes from, for grown-ups and children to talk about together.
Atlas Of Greats is a series of true picture-book biographies of the world's greats, for ages 3 to 7. Each book follows one person from childhood, in short pages made for reading aloud.
Specs
- Format
- Digital PDF, 32 pages
- Size
- 8.5 × 8.5 in
- Ages
- 3 to 7
Facts for kids
- Rabindranath was born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, now called Kolkata.
- He won the Nobel Prize in 1913. His most famous book of poems is Gitanjali, which means 'song offerings'.
- Gandhi and many others called him Gurudev, a name meaning 'honoured teacher'.
- His school at Santiniketan grew into a university called Visva-Bharati, which is still open today.
- He wrote the national anthems of two countries, India and Bangladesh.
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