Rabindranath Tagore

Written by Aparna Rajesh R
Illustrated by Atlas Of Greats

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 great Indians for ages 3 to 7. Each book follows one person from childhood, in short pages made for reading aloud.