I read THE BOOK: The Magic Store Of Nu-Cham-Vu. it was a good story. though the book was for smaller children than me, i enjoyed reading it. i will confess, though, it was a bit boring in between and can force you to put it down. i tried to read further and surprisingly it was good! it only consists of 132 pages and i finished it the day i bought it, even so i had heard that it was a good book and so i picked up a copy. another confession: yes it was not worth the price it was (175!) but you have to try different books, you know. but i dare say that though there were only three stories they were completely unusual which impressed me the most.
i guess you would have thought the book will be about the things in this store, i guessed the same but as i said the stories were different.
The store (no, not a grocery store, the magical store) is located in Anchan Bay. which is a imaginary, rubbishly imagined actually, is a village. and then you will find most unusual things in this store, for xample: chocolate cakes made of potatoes and cream, toffee rolled around sugar cane sticks and beetroot ice cream garnished with tomato-chilli jam, yeah like i care what you put in what. and then some things (bad) happen with people which of course our ugly little hero, Nu-Cham-Vu does and then the village people want it (yes 'it' coz it is a monster) to go. but the children don't. and so the battle has begun (well, thats what is written on the back cover of the book, pls someone tell me with who anyway?) i never got a tinge of battle in the book. and yes the front cover reads Ruskin Bond recommended, so?
well, you got to say this book, which is not as long as its title, is written well by Shreekumar Varma. And illustrated by his son Vinayak Varma. Father and son doing work together, hmmm..... good, i can give it: 4 out of 5.