"In India, over 30 per cent of the total population lives below the poverty line. Such a high degree of poverty highlights a serious dimension of the country s urban scenario also. The insufficient employment opportunities and poor income levels add to the miseries of the urban poor. They live in sub-standard settlements like slums, unauthorized colonies, squatters, pavements, resettlement colonies, etc. These settlements are considered to be the most filthiest in the world. Taking a serious note of the growing urban poverty, the Government of India spent hundreds of crores of rupees on implementing various schemes and programmes with no significant result. Urban poverty continues to be an area of major concern and unbeatable challenge. It was against this backdrop, experts working on different aspects of urban poverty were approached to contribute articles expressing their views and giving their first-hand experiences. The reading of this volume can be immensely useful to professionals, government officials, activists etc., who are involved in poverty alleviation programmes."

This is the story of a boy, Peter. He is the only child of Cate and John. He is very lovely and is too dear to his Mom and Dad. There is a garden adjacent to their home. His Mom takes him there every evening and he enjoys the company of other children there. The garden is also regularly visited by a group of fairies. The Fairy Queen, Suzie gets deeply fascinated by Peter. She wants to get closer to him and talk to him but that looks impossible in the presence of several children and their Moms. How the fairy flies Peter to her home? How all fairies enjoy while Peter is in their world? What method fairies adopt to approach Peter's Mom? How the fairies dispel 'fairies-fear' from Cate's mind? How Suzie feel after being friends with Peter's family? Read the book and find out.

Prince Andrew and the Princess Angela had love marriage. The Princess had a necklace of unique diamonds. Everybody who saw the necklace envied it. It created a jealousy among the ladies. It also kicked up a commotion in the jewellary market when some men, under pressure of their wives, went in search of that quality of diamonds. During their honeymoon tour of neighboring countries by sea, the necklace attracted every eye. In one of the functions arranged in honor of the couple in another country, the Princess spotted a woman staring at the necklace avidly. The Princess first ignored the woman but in another function in the next country, she again saw another woman looking at the necklace in the same manner as the first one. The Princess got cautious. In all later functions a woman was found seeing the necklace in the same manner but the woman was different every time always sitting alone. That made the Princess restless as she knew the value of the diamonds and their fame and loved them as her life.

The children would find interesting, simple and short stories of different things which they usually see in their homes as well as in TV programs and would be able to understand each item by seeing the images and the meanings given in the end of each caption. To facilitate the children, meanings of some difficult words have been given at the end of the composition of each caption. We know that each English word carries several meanings but to accommodate the meanings in a limited space as well as to save the children from going into lengthy complications to find the required meaning, This have been tried to give the meanings in most simple words and exactly in context to the subject. These difficult words, of course, have several other meanings too.