4 Heroes and a Green Beard

Four friends - Teni, Kyabla, Habul and Pyalaram - go to Darjeeling for the summer holidays. But soon strange things begin to happen, when they meet Sevenpenny Santra, who wants them to save him from Kagamachi, the Japanese spy... Could they have jumped into the plot of a detective novel? The first English translation of a Bengali children's classic, which has delighted generations of Bengali readers, this vibrant novel for young readers makes a marvellous introduction to Indian children's literature for English-speaking children. Ages 7-10.Ganguli, Taraknath is the author of '4 Heroes and a Green Beard', published 1999 under ISBN 9788186211526 and ISBN 8186211527.