In this collection, you will find some of Ruskin Bond?s most-loved stories down the years?from the unlikely friendship between a boy and an old woman in ?The Prospect of Flowers? to the tussle between Binya and Ram Bharosa for a beautiful umbrella in ?The Blue Umbrella?; from the story of a lost love in ?Binya Passes By? to the bond between a boy and a cherry tree in ?The Cherry Tree?. These heart-warming stories will make you laugh and cry by turns.