Practice the summary of the poem Grandma Climbs a Tree.

✨ Grandma Climbs a Tree — interactive drag & drop worksheet for poetry lovers. Rearrange the story lines in the correct chronological order as Ruskin Bond wrote. Ruskin Bond, an accomplished writer born in Kasauli in 1934 who has penned over thirty books for children, demonstrates his unique ability to enjoy unusual actions in his poem "Grandma Climbs a Tree". The poem celebrates his grandmother, whom he calls a "genius" because she possessed the extraordinary gift of climbing trees from the age of six and continued to do so even at sixty-two. When people advised her to grow old "gracefully" and stop climbing, she laughingly refused; following a health incident where she was confined to bed for a week—an experience she likened to a "brief season in hell"—she undauntedly demanded a house in a treetop. Her dutiful son, with the narrator's assistance, fulfilled her wish by building a tree-house complete with windows and a door, allowing Grandma to triumphantly uphold her right to reside in a tree while drinking sherry with the poet.