poruary 1981 No. 3 % ee 0 Rs, 2. SS eax CHILDREN’ S$ MONTH FROM THE HOUSE 0 AMAR CHITRA KATH Ganesha the clever ia IS SO) r, relWE INVITE DEALERSHIP OUTSIDE BOMBAY, AND EXPORT ENQUIRIES PRINTED PLASTIC CHARTS/BOOKS CAN BE USED AGAIN AND AGAIN. TO RE-COLOUR JUST WIPE WITH SOFT TISSUE OR CLOTH, Our currer 1) Engh Alphabets & 4) Vegetables & FIUIES! esses sceeensnue. (BOOK) Numbers 5) Means of Transport .. ~~ (BOOKLET) 2) Hindi Vernamala......... (CHART BOOK) 6) Puzzles & Games 1 @ 2 | (CHART) Animals @ Bfids (BOOK) & our newly introduced MAGICARPET-Picture ete making card Tinea Cantunimarsens Collections - Breach Candy. Paragen Teys-Kemps Corner, Gabsone Marine Asratic Degg eeazat,, Warl. Prabhat Gift Centre - Dadar, India's Hobby Contes ane ine Lines Walworth tm siere , Churchgate, Bombay Stationary Mart PM. Road, Fart Soave Colaba, Linking Read, Khar, Popular Book Dept-Lamington Road, ® AHMEDAB wag Elis Bridge ® BARODA-16; Kalpana Agencies - RaopuasCAL ainrajpet © ceeeel Street @ BANGALORE-18 V.N. Kamat - 21113" Maneppa Fabby Conn ainagshaimaipel. ® SECUNDERABAD-15: Ultra Trimulghenny @ MADRAS. My apes Hobby Cantimaglpt. Mount Road © POONA-1: Geetanial Traders’5. Kelasn Pore Maneramagan| Published Micchandeni. for India 8 Peck House Eytolt, Rusi Mansion, 28, Nathalal are larg. ai rte ai ‘inters, Marol Naka, Mat uradas Vissanji Road, Andheri (East), Bombay 400 068. Editor : Anant Pai Art Director : Pradeep Sathe Editorial assistance : Kamalé Chandrakant, Subba Rao, Luis Fernandes|'7WEIR_SONS, SKANDA AND GANESHA, E GAGE. ba me (IP Pe ie) a 1 HAVE A \ uTTLE GIFT } FOR 4OuU... Z : pies OW WHAT IT Ts amopak! TO WHOM | WILL YOu |4OU WILL GO SKANDA MOUNTED HIS. PEACOCK. - WHAT ABOUT You, GANESHA ? “ —_—- { | MEANWHILE SKANDA FLEW | OVER THE MOUNTAINS...fs AND THE SEAS. HA! ONE ROUND NEARLY OVER! FIRST ROUND, COMPLETED} ( GANESHA! [PLL BE HOME EVEN \ AREN'T 4OU / ( BEFORE GANESHA TAKES DA GOING ie noe OFF! / WAIT, MOTHER Sg <7 LET ME FINISH | “(eo WA \ THIS MODAK. (ke BUSY EATING _— MOPAKS [eapueese? = (_4eS. JUST AS | Y } THOUGHT. HE IS STILL! O eG > | : s | | — ie / seEcOND (| ROUND ) COMPLETED! / GANESHA! SKANDA WILL SOON BE BACK. AND YOU +++ oe TINKLEEs Ad GANESHA JOINED HIG PALMS--- ‘ - ) / 7 'VE_WON, AND YOU HAVEN’T EVEN STARTED, ESHA . BUT HE DIDN’T EVEN LEAVE KAILA:HIS PARENTS MEAN THE WORLD To HIM, AND HE WENT ROUND THEM THREE TIMES BEFORE YOu RETURNED. HERE,GANESHA y LET MY BROTHER HERE |S YOUR) HAVE IT. 1 PREFER THE PRIZE WITHOUT y A EVEN MOVING. Ww) sy | SANESHA, YOu won) you are so ] 1AM ¢ CLEVER BECAUSE wr . XS £; | AND | EAT A LOT OF mopaks. 7 TINKLE| +:AND ONCE HE STARTS EATING MODAKS, THERE'S, NO WAY OF STOPPING HIM. PO YOU _ACCEPT MY. | DO CONDITION > BUT ON ONE CONDITION (4ou MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND \ WHATEVER | DICTATE AND \\ ONLY THEN TAKE IT Dry DOWN { AGREED, \OsIR. TAKE CARE, SIR. You DON’T KNOW HIM. HE UNDERSTANDS; \ FASTER THAN WE ~ SPEAKNOW HERE ARE THE PALM LEAVES TO WRITE ON. \ SHALL WE -- BEGIN?"/P VYAGA MOONDITION, We DICTATED 4” ‘OPEICULT SENTENCE. YOUR STORY IS INTERESTING AND THE LANGUAGE IS SIMPLE. BUT HERE ANP THERE, THERE ARE A FEW VERY DIFFICULT SENTENCES. 4ou_KNOW WHY THOSE DIFFICULT SENTENCES WERE GIVEN TO 4OU, GANESHA. NOW MAY | GO HOME , SIR? IT’S SIMPLE, SIR. WHY DON’T You OFFER ME A FEW MOPAKS ? 4ou MAY, GANESHA. AND 1 DON’T KNOW HOW TO THANK 4Ou -MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, A YOUNG CHINESE PRINCESS SAW SOME STRANGE WORMS EATING THE LEAVES OF A MULBERRY BUSH. sii Tim t's e L Y mao Illustrations : Pradeep Sathe Script: Luis EVERY PAY THE GIRLS WOULD GO TO {How Funny ] WATCH THE WORMS, — 0 THEY ARE THAT ’S. BECOMING FATTER | BECAUSE THEY bay BY DAY, /\ EAT SO 4 ‘MUCH. 1 WONDER HOW MUCH BUT THE NEXT FEW DAYS WERE| |{ ALAS! THE POOR FATTER THEY WILL WET AND COLD AND THE { WORMS HAVE EATEN BECOME TOMORROW. CHILDREN COULD NOT GO OUT. \ TOO MUCH AND THEY ARE DYING.THE GIRLS WATCHED /N WONDER AS THE WORMS WOVE COCOONS ROLIND THEMSELVES. oie ¥ THOSE MUST BE THEIR COFFINS. SEE, SOME OF THEM HAVE COVERED THEMSELVES COMPLETELY. THEY MUST BE DEAD ALREADY. WE WILL HAVE TO BURY i Cie Damiani SOON THE GRAVE WAS READY. THE PRINCESS BROUGHT THE COCOONS --- US SOME TEA AND RICE WHEN THE CHINESE BURIED THEIR DEAD THEY USED TO KEEP FOOD L AND DRINK ON THE GRAVES, »-- ANP BEGAN TO DROP THEM ONE BY +++ SHE ACCIPENTALLY ONE INTO THE GRAVE. AS SHE WAS DOING | | PROPPED ONE OF THE THIS COCOGNS INTO A CUP OFTHE SOFT-HEARTED PRINCESS BURST INTO TEARS, i SHE DECIDEP TO TAKE /T TO HER MOTHER. WHAT HAVE = Ey | ~PONE! ITS | COVERING HAS TN nh A WORM WHICH MAKES A COVERING FOR ITSELF. HOW STRANGE! DON’T WEEP. LEAVE | THIS WORM WITH ME AND \ G@ BACK TO YOUR COUSINS SHE DROPPED THE THEN TOOK IT COCOON INTO A BOWL OF AGAIN «- + xfTHE STRAND BROKE | MUST SEVERAL TIMES, SEE THOSE bd 28S eel WORMS FOR, MYSELF. ff WHEN HER DAUGHTER TOOK HER TO THE YOU HAVE FOUND MULBERRY TREE AND SHOWED HER THE THE THREAD FROM COCOONS, SHE WAS OVERJOYED. WHICH WE SHALL WEAVE THE MOST 4OU_HAVE FOUND BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING VERY CLOTH EVER WONDERFUL, M4 DAUGHTER. LADY SI-LING TAUGHT HER SERVANTS HOW TO SPIN THE STRANDS INTO THREAD AND TO WEAVE THE THREAD INTO THE CLOTH WHICH WE NOW (pa a er enna ar Z BVER SINCE , LADY SI*LING HAS BEEN CALLED THE FIRST MAKER OF SILK, THE NAME OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS HOWEVER HAS NOT COME DOWN TO Us.Can you name the countries to which these flags belong? This aeroplane carries many things. Name them using only the letters AEROPLANE The Boomerang is a weapon Ti used by the aborigines of Australia. When thrown, if it misses the target, it returns’ to the man who has thrown it.7 EL) (ON) Gi) AE ll need: A piece of ee card paper, tracing paper, a pencil and a pair of scissors. Place the Your boomerang tracing on is ready. Now the card and stick it under the cut along nail of your left the line. thumb like this. @ first f your right @this: Your cn will fly through the air and return to you, like this} My young friends, Thank you for the heartening wel- come given to TINKLE. “Delightful!” “Marvellous!” “Very entertaining!* “simply loved it!”"are some of the compliments we received. We spe- cially thank Mehernosh Bharucha, Naresh Rajusth, Prakash Chainani and Miel Sahgal of Bombay and Sujatha Jagannathan of Ahmedabad for their detailed comments. Nine- year-old Murali of Chembur writes, “| kept asking my Daddy every day when will TINKLE arrive. At last the day came.” There must have been thousands of you werig like Murali for the arri- val of TINKLE. This explains why copies of TINKLE were almost sold out on the very first day—November 14, 1980—in Bombay, Delhi and Madras. We are sure all of you will eagerly look forward to the arrival of every new issue of TINKLE. On our part, my colleagues and | will do our best to keep TINKLE twinkling all the time. Affectionately yours, Ow OK Uncle Pai SOLUTIONS TO THE LAST SET OF PUZZLES: 0 = RULES: 1. Your solutions (to items A, Band C only)should be sent to us on a separate sheet of paper. 2. Each entry must have the entry ‘coupon (printed ree TINKLE | COTS TON ES Sec; 3 MeN india Book Book f Hove, 29, Wodehouse Road, Bombay-400 039. The first hundred all-correct entries recelved by us will each win 's Game-Box from: M/S NANAVATI SALES d PRIVATE LTD, 4 Hirabaug, Teipal Road, Vile Parle Es) Ss Bombay-400 057 AS “ gee yBHALL/ PEERS LAZILY OUT OF HER SHE'S READY 70 GO CAVE. AS USUAL, SHE'S BEEN OUT IN SEARCH OF SLEEPING ALL THROUGH THE HOT SUMMER 'GDAY, Based en the material provided by Nandini Deshmukh, Script: Ashvin eeraae BUT NOW, THE SUN /6 ABOUT TO radeep Sathe SET, AND IT'S MUCH COOLER, BHALU LOOKS LAZY AND CLUMSY ANP WHAT'S THE CANNOT SEE OR HEAR VERY WELL; BUT = MATTER? SHE'S SHE_/S VERY STRONG. SHE CAN WALK STOPPED AND SHE’S MILES 7O FIND THE FOO SHE LIKES. SNIFFING HARD! ous M-M-M-M! ‘ WHAT A POWERFUL BLOW / M-M-M-MI 17S DELICIOUS! BHALU LOVES HONEY, +++WITH HER SHARP CURVED CLANS AND THE, ROUGH SOLESNOW WHO /S THIS STRANGER? WILL BHALU DRIVE HIM SHE'S EATEN EVER DROP OF THE HONEY ++*AND SHAKE: AWAY ? BUT SHE'S STILL IT WITH ALL I HUNGRY $ SO SHE HER MIGHT, 1 GHUFFLES UP TO. ANOTHER NOT AT ALL. HE'S COME TO = BHALL/ AND HER MATE FIND Tih THEY FIND ‘LIVE WITH HER AND BHALU * THE SUMMER HEAT QUITE WATER, GIVES HIM A WARM WELCOME, UNBEARABLE. WHAT'S WORSE, THEY ARE THIRSTY AND THERE 18 NO WATER IN THE RIVER, BUT THEY DON’T GIVE UP. THEY WILL DIG UP THE RIVER-BED... SHE PIGS UP THE TERMITE MOUNDS WITH HER LONG CLAWS. SOME TIME LATER HER MATE GOES AWAY. BHALL DOES NOT STOP HM. r LIVING ALONE DOES NOT BOTHER HER, SHE LIKES IT, 600N THE RAINS COME. AND RAINS FOR BHALLI MEAN PLENTY OF TERMITES — HER FAVOURITE /NSECT FOOD. v7 TINKLESHE HUFFS AND PUFFS AND BLOWS AWAY ALL THE — SU-R-R-R! WHATIS DUST AND EARTH TILL SHE CAN SEE THE INSECTG THAT SOUND? IT CAN BE IN THEIR GALLERIES. HEARD YARDS AWAY! SHE’S SUCKING THE TERMITES INTO HER MOUTH? HER NOSTRILS SO THAT THE DUST CAN OF COURSE, SHE'S LUCKY THAT SHE HAS A TOOTHLESS GAP /N HER UPPER YAW OR SHE COULON’T HAVE SUCKED IN THOSE TERMITES! AT LAST WINTER SETS IN, BHALL SHE LOVINGLY CARES : /§ NOW 4 PROUD MOTHER. FOR HER HELPLESS = =OPEN AND THEY ARE ¥ CUBS TILL... ABLE 7O ROMP AND PLAY... TINKLE++++ AND JOIN HER ON HER 17'S _4 TIGER! HOW WANDERINGS. DARE HE COME ANYWHERE NEAR HER CUBS/ BUT BHALW DOES NOT TRUST SHARPENS CLAWS JUST /h HE DECIDES TO WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT BLIT THEY MUST BE WARY OR THEY MIGHT GET CAUGHT AND THREE YEARS OLD, THE ENP UP PERFORMING TRICKS ON THE ROAD OR IN A CIRCUS. CUBS WANDER AWAY LIKE THEIR FATHER. q VE, SSANTIE 4OU HAVE MET THE KODIAK BEAR SLOTH BEAR. HERE ARE SOME OF HIS COUSINS FOUND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, ~ THE SLEEK SUN BEAR THE WHITE POLAR BEAR 13 TINKLEAND THE WIND _ iitsstrations: Ram Waeerkar 1 AM STRONGER ba Eg | CAN BLOW HUGE THAN YOU. WY p Seay HOUSES} aBUT THE HARDER TJE WIND BLEW THE ——, NO ONE COULD MAKE TIGHTER THE MAN HELD ON TO HIS SCARF, A THAT FELLOW TAKE OFF FINALLY THE WIND . @. HIS SCARF. ae GAVE UP. & os : C | Sf E S )) REALLY? Aa MOVE ASIDE \ ), LEE, 4 THEN. LET rf ME TRY, ei PLETE ae SS SS [THE.SUN MADE HIMSELF, WF one MOMENT 17's AS VERY HOT. —— P COLD AS WINTER. (sai) ( i ’ ay 55 H yi A Gy A S \\ SS IDS 2) — THE NEXT MOMENT IT’S AS HOT AS SUMMER. oy e \--DO LET ME KNOW IF 4OU WANT TO HAVE ANY MORE CONTESTS. “7G 1D BETTER GO QUIETLY AWAY FROM HERE. ve \ (WELL, MY \\ FRIEND -« | BUT THE WIND DIDN’T EVEN LOOK BACK. HE HAD HAD ENOUGH OF CONTESTS. x TINKLEHOW RAIL TRAVEL Script: Luis M. Fernandes @ Illustrations: Pradeep Sathe IN ENGLAND TiLL ABOUT 400 YEARS AGO, WAGONS | |i anal ii PULLED BY HORSES CARRIED THE COAL FROM THE WAGON-WHEELS 4AD COAL MINES. - GROOVES AND WERE PULLED ON WOOPEN RAILS +.. ts THE HORSES WOULD FIND THEIR WORK MUCH EASIER, A SINGLE HORSE COULD NOW EASILY PLILL TWO OR THREE WAGONS. SUT WOOPEN RAILS WORE OUT FAST. IN 1789, AN ENGLISHMAN DESIGNED THE FIRST RA/LS MADE OF CAST /RON. GRADUALLY, PEOPLE TOO STARTED TRAVELLING BY RAIL. THEY TRAVELLED iN COACHES, PULLED BY TWO OR MORE HORSES. px[HEN ~W 1804 RICHARD TREVITHICK BUILT THE FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. HIS LOCOMOTIVE COULD PLILL TEN TONG OF (RON AT THE SPEED OF FIVE MILES PER HOURS = Cy AS) j N ) YNFORTUNATELY PEOPLE DID NOT THINK MUCH OF HIS N y LOCOMOTIVE AND RICHARD TREV/THICK DIED A POOR MAN, HORSE ANP WAVING A RED FLAG ROPE AHEAD WARNING /, PEOPLE TO GET OFF THE TRA THEN W/TH A LOUD HISS, THE TRAIN MOVED | | THE TRAIN SOON REACHED FORWARD, FRIGHTENING THE HORSE AND THE PLACE /T WAS GOING TERRIFYING THE PEOPLE, 70. 17 HAD COVERED SQMILES| WITHOUT ANY DIFFICULTY « THE AGE OF THE RAILWAYS HAP BEGININ THE BEGINNING EVERYONE WAS AFRAID OF TRAINS. SOME DOCTORS WARNED PEOPLE THAT /F THEY TRAVELLED ON TRAINS THEY WOULD DIE OF THERE WERE OTHERS WHO THOUGHT THAT SPARKS FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE WOULD SET ALL THE HOUSES THE WAY ON FIRE. BUT GEORGE STEPHENSON DID HIS BEST TO MAKE TRAINS POPLLAR AND GRADUALLY PEOPLE BEGAN TO LOSE THEIR FEAR OF THEM, = WW INDIA, THE FIRST RAILWAY Lit WAS SET UP BETWEEN BOMBAY 84 1870 PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BEGAN TO USE TRAINS,Illustrations PRADEEP SATHE HOLDING THEIR SPORTS \ TODAY. THE DEER WILL, BE THE FIRST TO RUN. THEY WILL BE RUNNING THIS 4, 7? THINGS TO DO THAN TO WATCH A DEER RACE. YOU DON?T UNDERSTAND. WaT SRE wat ARE Dyce WAITING FOR IF WE HIDE IN THIS BUSH , WE COULD GRAB A DEER OR TWO AS yn4 THEY RUN PAST. EY AY ) Dn > / WHAT A oy Ny e aS) HIDE. DEER MEAT IS A ME! AY) 2eticious! we Y4ou'Re ? LET?S] TELLING HOLD ON! ILL SEE IF THE SHALL WE START THE RACE, KALIA? THE | HOPE NO TREES OR BOULDERS HAVE TINKLERF ued! wuar’s GOING ON DOWN THERE? OH, HERE COMES THAT PEST, KALIA¢ ALERT, POOB- DoOB BR PONT DOZE OFF OR--- = FY aren’ T You ami COMING FOR a Srorrse) NO. VE yor THINGS VM SURE HE 2 ILL CIRCLE WAS TALKING ‘ ROUND AND TAKE TO SOMEONE. Ny ANOTHER ie Wg oe Aka TINKLE | HOPE THAT Y HE WON’T. NOW CROW DOESN'T) ALL WE HAVE COME BACK, TO DO 1S WAIT si, eg THE RACEFe ey THERE’S A CHANGE IN THE Ph. PROGRAMME... IS EVERYTHING ALL b e Rg - RIGHT ? CAN WE ha Ps rs ? RGM START THE RACE 14 ‘ 4 Xi a pee? CERTAINLY.BuT THE WHOLE HERD MUST BE RUNNING. IN THAT CASE WE COULD CATCH EVEN PERHAPS SEVEN! RACKET THEY ARE MAKING!LET ME GO, DOOB-DOOB. IT’S NOT A HERD OF DEER... IT’S A HERD OF --- ++ ELEPHANTS! ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! PLEASE CLEAR THE TRACKS FOR THE NEXT EVENT— THE RHINOCEROS RACE. OUT OF HERE! THOSE TWO CAN MOVE FAST WHEN THEY WANT TO. ANYWAY IT’S SAFE FOR THE DEER To RUN NOW-eevan and Hanu relive eworlds tallest > building is the 110 storey[* Sears Tower, Chicago - fr 1454 feet tall with 103 | | am Cevators serving | 16,700people. 3 ‘ “WY The Motherland ‘in i USSR is the world’ \\\ tallest statue: . 270 feet high Ciust 18 feet's! than the y; Qutb Minar!) 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