Great Stories for Children is a collection of some of Ruskin Bond's most delightful children's stories. It stars Toto the monkey who takes a fancy to the narrator's aunt much to her dismay a python besotted by his own appearance a mischievous ghost who enjoys stirring up the house when things get dull three young children stranded in a storm on the Haunted Hilland Ruskin Bond himself who happens to make the acquaintance of a ghost at a resort late one night.