Story of "Late Balu"

Now we will meet a boy who was always late for everything. See what happens when you do not practise being punctual in your day to day life.

Once there lived an old lady on the banks of river Jamuna. Her son and daughter-in-law died at a very young age in an accident. They left behind their only child whose name was Balakrishanand. Since his name was too long his grandmother lovingly called him Balu. He was only two years old when he lost his parents.

The old lady decided to bring up her little grandson with a lot of love, and hence she pampered him a lot. She worked hard to give him a good future. She wanted to teach him all good values of life and sent him to school.

Balu was a lazy child. He never used to get up in time. His grandmother used to wake him up every day in the morning. But Balu would make some excuse and would not get up soon. The old lady wouldn't like to schold him, thinking that he would be hurt. By the time he finished brushing his teeth he would be late for his bath. Even there he spent a lot of time. Then he hardly had any time to have his breakfast. By then the school bus would have come to pick him. Many times he had to leave his breakfast unfinished and get into the school bus. Otherwise the big moustached driver would leave him behind. Several times it had happened that after waiting for few minutes for Balu the angry driver had left him behind and gone.

When the bus left leaving him behind how did Balu go to school? Let us find out tomorrow. Until then you can browse through these books like Tinky's Best Gift.

Baby monkeys' story concludes today...

Seeing their worried look Dolly said, "If you guarantee that you won't spoil our tamarinds you can move to our tamarind tree right now and you will be safe there. No one will come to our garden without our permission. By then the two wicked men would come and go back disappointed without seeing you."

The baby monkeys felt very relieved. They thanked Dolly, their new friend.

Dolly told them to follow her immediately to the safe place. Within minutes they followed Dolly and reached her garden. While Dolly stood under the tree, they climbed the tamarind tree and sat there watching their house from a distance. As expected they saw two men coming with a net to trap the monkeys towards their house. Soon they spread their net under the tree and made a useless effort to chase the monkeys. After waiting for some time they left the place with their net with a great disappointment.

"Thank you so much, Dolly for saving our lives." The three baby monkeys came down the tamarind tree and thanked her.

"No need to thank me. I have already told you I'm your friend. Friends should help each other in time of need. That's what friends are for," said Dolly. "If you ever have a problem come to this safe place. My tamarind tree will always be there to welcome you," said Dolly happily with a grin.

"We will never forget this great help, Dolly. We are ever grateful to you. You're our true friend."

All three of them shook her hands in token of their friendship and went back to their old home. Dolly saw tears in her friends eyes.


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Baby monkeys' story continues......

Dolly suddenly became very serious.

"I'm here with an important message. You're going to be trapped soon by two men. I overheard them discussing in the market. I thought it is only fair to pass on the message to you," Dolly whispered to them.

"What!!!" they said together.

"Yes, I heard them discussing it when I went to the market with my father this morning. So I thought I will warn you to leave this place and go at once. Any moment they will reach here."

"Why should they trap us?" asked the girl monkey innocently.

"Don't you know that?" explained the elder monkey. "They will keep us in their cage for some days until we become friendly with them Then they will teach us dancing and order us to play whenever they want us to do, in front of people, and they will collect the money from the crowd. We will be like their slaves in their hands. We'll miss our freedom and will never see our parents again. They will beat us if we don't listen to them."

"C'mon friends. No time to discuss and waste your precious time. Get ready soon to move to a safer place," Dolly reminded them about the danger.

The monkeys looked at each other wondering where to go. Their parents would reach only by the evening. There's still about four hours to go. The wicked men could come any time before that."

Dolly decided to help them.

Kids, do you know how Dolly would help them? Let's wait until tomorrow for her plan.

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Baby monkeys' story continues

When Dolly saw the toy horse she decided when she grew big she too would buy a horse and ride it. She was very fond of the little Barbie doll. Dolly too had a similar doll, but bigger in size, and played with it for some time. Then she lay in the bed and decided to rest until the monkeys returned.

Within minutes Dolly fell asleep.

By then, after playing for a long time on the tree, the smallest monkey was falling asleep and the bigger monkey said, "Chottu, don't sleep here. We'll go to our house and sleep."

As they entered the house they got the smell of a human being inside. Within seconds they were shocked to see a girl sleeping on their bed. "Thief!! Thief!" they shouted. Three of them together decided to attack her.

Hearing their shoutings, the little girl got up and smiled at them in a very friendly way. "Oh, you've come back! Waiting for you, I got tired and slept off for some time."

The baby monkeys didn't like the way Dolly said. They wondered why she had come to see them. The eldest one looked at her questionably.

"I'm not your enemy. I'm your friend," proclaimed Dolly.

"No, you're not our friend," shouted the biggest monkey.

"No, dear. I'm your friend. Please believe me," Dolly assured them with a warm smile.

The three monkeys looked at each other. The smallest one held his elder brother's hand and Chottu started crying. He had never seen a human being coming to their house.

"Don't cry baby monkey. Believe me, I'm your friend." Dolly said.

"Why have you come to our house? This is a monkey's place. It's not your type of house. Please go away soon. Otherwise I know what to do," shouted the biggest monkey.

Kids, let's see what will happen tomorrow. Will the monkeys trust her as a friend? Or will Dolly get upset and go away?

Story No.3. Three Baby Monkeys find a Pal!

Now Children, get ready to read another story of three baby monkeys.

Once upon a time there were three baby monkeys, who lived in a village with their parents. One small, one medium sized and a larger one. The middle one was a girl monkey and the other two were her brothers. Their parents had gone for work, leaving them alone at home. They had a beautiful big bed, decorated with beautiful flowers, and three toys to play. The smallest toy of a bunny rabbit was for the smallest moneky to play, and a little bigger toy of a Barbie doll for the girl monkey to play and the biggest toy was a horse for the biggest monkey. Their parents gave them all food and told them to play until their return, without fighting each other.

The three baby monkeys played for a long time and got tired, and finally they went to the top of the tree to watch the other monkeys outside playing, jumping from tree to tree. They too tried to jump with them and get practice.

Just then a pretty little girl, called Dolly, came to the monkeys' house to give an urgent message. Seeing no one around she was disappointed and decided to wait until their return. When she saw their beautiful bed she liked to sleep there and played with the three toys.

Now children, let's leave Dolly to play with the toys for some time. We will meet her again tomorrow with the baby monkeys.

Story No.2 - Story ending today

Children, now you can see the fun in Tenali Raman's house.

Soon, the two thieves came out of their hiding places and moved happily towards the well with the idea of taking away the gold and cash from the trunk.

"How nice we knew where Raman has kept his valuables! It saves our time searching his house," whispered the taller thief.

"Shhhhhhh! Be careful. Nobody should hear us. Poor Raman! He didn't know how much easier he has made our work." The shorter thief joined him.

The two thieves exchanged a victorious smile and began to draw water from the well. They did not even realise the time as they were too engrossed in their work. Both the thieves did their work tirelessly. The well was almost empty when it was nearing dawn and still they did not get the trunk. They were disappointed.

"Hurry up. Don't waste time," said the taller one.

"We have drawn so much water, friend. Still we have not got the trunk," said the shorter thief sadly.

"Didn't you see him throwing it into the well? So hurry up. There's no time left to waste." The taller one kept encouraging his friend without losing his heart.

Hearing a sound they looked back, startled. It was Raman standing there with his morning coffee and a mischievious smile.

"Thank you friends for watering our field the whole night. The plants were almost dried without water. You saved my efforts and my plants."

Only then the thieves realised that there were fooled. Within seconds they ran away with their lives.

Now children, I am sure you know what Tenai Raman had whispered to his wife!.... The secret...!

Tenali Raman's story - continued

Tenali Raman guessed their plan correctly. He thought he should make use of these thieves in a paroper way instead of fighting with them.

"Opportunities won't come always. Whenever an opportunity knocks at your door you should make use of it." He told his wife.

His wife did not understand what he had meant. She was not as clever as her husband. Tenali Rama whispered his idea to his wife, and she was proud of her intelligent husband. When she understood his plan she held back her laughter and acted accordingly. Children, can you guess what he had said to her? You will know it later.

"I think keeping the gold and the cash inside the house is not at all safe these days. There is no security in the home. I have a brilliant idea. Let us keep all our valuables in a trunk and lock it up nicely. Then we should throw it into the well. No thieves will ever think of finding the valuables inside the well. So even if any intelligent thief comes he won't find our valuables. So dear, hurry up," said Tenali Raman to his wife loudly.

Both Raman and his wife quickly packed the trunk with a veavy stone and threw it into the well, and went to sleep.

"Oh, now we can sleep peacefully!" said Tenali Raman loudly eough for the two thieves outside to hear.

They put off the lights and went to bed, waiting for the dawn to arise soon.

Now children, would you be able to sleep peacefully if you knew the thieves were waiting outside to rob you? Let's see what happens the next day.

Story No.2. Tenali Raman's Secret

Hello Children,

Did you enjoy the first story? Then I'm sure you will enjoy this story also.



This story is about Tenali Raman. Do you know who was Tenali Raman? I'm sure you would have studied about him in your class or at least heard about him. If not, I'll tell you. He was appointed as the Court Jester by the King of Vijayanagara, in India.Tenali Raman was very clever and known for his wit. He was always successful in pleasing the king.


Children, now I invite you to listen to an amusing story about Tenali Raman.


Tenali Raman spent much of his time pleasing the king. Because of this, every day he reached home late in the evening. His wife even reminded him about watering the fields. Every time he had thought that he would reach home early next day to water the fields, but invariably he came home late every day.

One day, when he reached home in the night, he saw the shadows of two persons moving outside the house. He soon guessed they were thieves.

His guess was right. They had come to rob him in the night and were waiting for the right opportunity and the right time. They were hiding near the wall without making any noise so that when everyone slept in the night they could enter the house quietly and take away the cash and gold .


Now you visualise the situation and guess what our hero Tenali Raman would have done in this situation. See you tomorrow for the continuation of the story. Till then go through the catalogue for stories like Tinky's Best Gift.

The story is ending today

As promised yesterday, I am finishing the story today. No more waiting to know the ending.

Then the minister said, “Maharaja, there is still hope left. We have counted the coconuts and there is one missing.”

The king and the princess looked at each and smiled. They waited anxiously for that person’s return.

Days passed, but that person did not return. The king soon lost hope of finding a honest man to marry his daughter. He never thought it will be so difficult to find a honest man in his kingdom or the neighbouring kingdoms.

But after a fortnight, an undernourished and tired looking young man, came back with an unbroken coconut and said, “Your Majesty, I couldn’t break this coconut as per your condition. I could not find a place where no one was watching me.”

The king got angry. He thought the young man was teasing him. “In this big world you could not find a place where you could break this coconut without anyone watching you? I can’t believe it. You have taken two weeks time to return!! Shame on you!” shouted the king.

“Maharaja, please believe me. I am telling you the truth. Many times I was about to break it hoping that no one was there. But every time I saw a new face watching me with a smile. I don’t know from where they came even though no one was around. I think it was God who was watching me everywhere. So I could not hide from Him and break the coconut. Please forgive me.”

“Then what happened?” Raju was eager to know.

Raju’s mother glanced at her son and continued the story. “The princess, however, was pleased. She knew now that this man was really honest. She had no hesitation to marry him and the king was very happy to leave his kingdom in the hands of a honest person,” said Raju’s mother.

“Now son, tell me whether any one saw you taking the eraser?” asked his mother holding him nearer to her.

“Yes, Mummy. God must have seen me taking it and keeping it for myself. I’m sorry. I will not do such things again,” Raju promised his mother. “I will return the eraser to Madan tomorrow itself.”

“That’s good.” Raju’s mother hugged him with a beaming smile.

The story is continued....

As I told you two days back, I'm going to continue with the story.

"Once there was a king who had a beautiful and intelligent daughter. When she grew big the king decided to get her married. The princess did not like any of the bridegrooms chosen by her father. She found fault with every one of them. Her disappointed father ten decided to let her choose her own husband. "

"I want to marry a very honest person. I will conduct a test and if I am satisfied that he is honest I will marry him," said the princess.

The king was delighted. He promptly agreed to his daughter's wish.

Hearing the news, the very next day the kingdom was flooded with young men claiming to be honest and wanting to marry the princess.

The princess gave each one of them a coconut and said, you should break this coconut and come back. But there is one condition - no one should see you breaking it. I'll marry the first person who fulfils this condition."

The eager young men collected the coconuts and went away to break them where no one was watching them.

Most of them came back within minutes, some within hours, and yet some at night. Each of them said that no one had seen them breaking the coconut. But the princess rejected all of them because she did not trust any of them. The king was disappointed that he could not find a honest person in his own country.

Then, children, do you know what happened? I will tell you tomorrow.

The Clever Princess

Raju's mother sat beside him to help his homework. When she was helping him she saw a new eraser in his box. It looked different from the other he had. It did not look like it had been made in India. She also knew that his father had not bought it for him. Neither had other relatives presented Raju with such an expensive eraser. To set her mind at rest, she decided to ask him.

"Raju, where did you get this eraser from?"

"From the school," pat came Raju's reply.

"School....? Who gave it to you?" persisted his mother.

Now Raju was in a dilemma. He wondered whose name he could use.

"Madan gave me this," said Raju, after a moment's thought and looked at his mother to see whether she was satisfied with his reply.

"Madan....? He does not sit next to you. Doesn't he sit in the front bench? So, why did he give you this?"

"Mummy, I want to finish this homework soon and go to play," said Raju hoping to avoid answering his mother's further questions.

"Raju, my dear, first answer my question," said his mother.

"He didn't give it to me. I saw it lying on the floor. So I took it," answered Raju.

"Raju! How can you just take it even if it was lying on the floor? It's not correct on you part."

"Why? What's wrong in it?"

"As a good boy you should have given it to Madan if you knew that it belonged to him. Otherwise you should have given it to your class teacher who would have handed it over to the owner. You have no right to take somebody's property from the classroom and keep it with you. If some one had seen you taking it what would they think of you?"

Raju smiled victoriously. "No one was there, Mummy. The whole class had gone to play. I was all alone at that time. So nobody had seen me picking it up."

"Raju, my son, you cannot say that nobody was watching you. Somebody is always watching you and your actions. Not only you, every one of us are being watched all the time. Please remember that."

Raju looked as if he did not believe his mother.

"I will tell you a story and you can decide for yourself whether you are being watched or not," said his mother.

What is that story? I'll tell you later.