b' Nyagrodha!\n\nCommand the wind to be still.\n\nAnd in the silence that follows the tree will shake down storiesa\n\nAs their train puffs away into the distance, three runaway childrena"Lily,\nVicky and Amana"are led by Makhmal Khan the monkey into the shimmering world of\nthe forest ... Deep within its shadows, beyond the last cloud on the horizon,\nstands Nyagrodha, the ancient banyan. \n\nWithin its magical labyrinth the children encounter monarchs and mice, dreamers\nand scholars, paupers and fortune-seekers, braggarts and burglars, foppish fish\nand bloodsucking bugs, gory battles and incredible flying machinesa\n\nBut none of these can distract them from the dangers that threaten Simha the\nfierce young '