“Too Many Bananas’ by Noni Illustrations: Angie & Upesh © Pratham Books, 2010 First English Edition: 2010 ISBN: 978-81-8263-381-0 ‘Typeserting and layout:The Other Design Studio, Printed by: Manipal Press Led, Manipal Published by: Pratham Books | www.prathambooks.org Registered Office: PRATHAM BOOKS, ## 621, 2nd Floor, Sth Main, OMBR Layout Banaswadi, Bangalore 560 043 T:+91 80 42052574 Regional Office: New Delhi T+91 11 41042483 ‘The development and production of this book has been supported by Nikki Gulati. Some rights reserved.This book is CC-BY-3.0 licensed. Full cerms of use and attribution available at: heep:lwwwrprathambooks.org/ee “You can download this and other books, for free, and see what has been done with our books here: hetp:!Iblog.prathambooks.orgip/ec-tracker.html Maybe you'll have an idea too! PRATHAM BOOKS.Too Many Bananas YS Written by Noni Illustrated by Angie & UpeshSringeri Srinivas was having a very bad day. Nobody wanted the sweet, ripe bananas he was growing on his farm.Not his family. Not his friends.Not the traders who could sell the bananas in far away markets.“No, thank you,” they all said. “The bananas are very sweet but we have had too many. We cannot eat any more!”Poor Sringeri Srinivas! Ay ¢ Vs p ( ANS aM, <1 What was he to do i now with his rich NS harvest of bananas?He decided to seek help from the Farmer’s Centre in Doddooru, a big town near his village. 7Off he went carrying the best crop of bananas.A few days later, Sringeri Srinivas returned home looking very happy. He went back to growing bananas on his farm.UND TES, PAR SEIN SAG) oF SOY eter AAD MP KS Ms its to anyone anymore. id not offer the frui But he d 10Not to his family. Not to his neighbour. Not to his friends.Not to the traders who could sell the bananas in far away markets. ey DN WISEveryone became very curious. Where were all the bananas going?One day, neighbour Shivanna arranged a very big pooja.The priest asked him to get 108 ripe bananas as an offering to the gods.Shivanna ran to “I’m sorry for saying no to Sringeri Srinivas. you before, but now | need 108 ripe bananas. Can you help me, ADSringeri Srinivas tapped his chin. “Well, my crop has just been cut but let me see what | can do. You may start your pooja. I will surely come.”The pooja started. The whole village came to watch. The priest began chanting. oy” /B p, a { > i Ne nelle | CoA Gh VF f We Nags ya Y y a calJust then, in came Sringeri Srinivas carrying a big bag.From the bag, he eit carefully took out 27 ~ i kets and laid th BX packets and laid them =; out before the holy fire. yy NN Each packet was carefully wrapped in banana leaf.in each one was “High Quality Banana Halwa, $.S. Farms.”“Each one has the pulp of 4 bananas. There are So here are your 27 packets. Xl ASS Ra NA aR \ I N (5 Ane WENN 277 108 ripe bananas!” =eThe priest was so surprised that he forgot to chant. In the silence, one child began SY to laugh.Soon the whole village was laughing and clapping. pez fo) ‘Se IS & INow we know what Sringeri Srinivas does with all the bananas that he grows!DID YOU KNOW? reer peaa allot be Facts About Bananas morafonnaes ee India is the largest producer of bananas in the world. There are over 120 edible varieties of bananas grown here. & ‘The National Research Centre on Bananas in Trichy has a collection of 1120 banana varieties! Zw Bananas are high in minerals that help increase . Bananas make students more Many Indian sweets are made out of bananas ayasam in Kerala, Banana Rasayana Karnataka, Banana Halwa, Rawa Kela-Gur Mihai, Do you know some more?Read India Pratham Books was set up in 2004, as part of the Read India movement, a nation-wide campaign to promote reading among children. Pratham Books is a not-for-profit organization that publishes quality books for children in multiple Indian languages. Our mission is to see "a book in every child's hand" and democratize the joy of reading. If you would like to contribute to our mission, please email us at info@prathambooks.org. / Noni is the pen name that Rohini Nilekani uses when she authors books for children. As a child, Noni is what she called herself, Rohini Nilekani is a writer and a philanthropist. She is Founder-Chairperson, Pratham Books. TF Angie is a graphic designer and in her spare time loves to keep busy with ceramic. Upesh is an animator who collects graphic novels and catches up with odd films in his spare time. Together they form ‘The Other Design Studio’.No one wanted to buy the sweet bananas that Sringeri Srinivas grew on his farm. Find out what he did with them in this cute story. Learning to read - level by level. This is a Level 2 book. Learning to Read For children who recognize familiar ‘words and can read new words ‘with help 2 PRATHAM BOOKS. Pratham Books is a not-for-profit ‘organization that publishes books in ‘multiple Indian languages to promote reading among children. www_prathambooks.org Too Many Bananas (English) MRP: & 35.00