📌 Chapter -1 –The Lost Child

The Lost Child is a story about a small boy who goes to a spring fair with his parents. On the way, he gets attracted to many things— toys, sweets, balloons, a snake charmer, and a roundabout. His parents do not buy these things for him.
While watching the roundabout, he gets separated from his parents. At first, he was excited about toys and sweets, but after getting lost, he wants only one thing — his mother and father.
A kind man tries to comfort him by offering sweets, balloons, flowers, and a ride, but the child refuses everything. He keeps crying only for his parents.

📌   Hindi Translation (सरल हिन्दी में)

“खोया हुआ बच्चा” एक छोटे बच्चे की कहानी है जो अपने माता-पिता के साथ एक मेले में जाता है। रास्ते में उसे कई चीज़ें अच्छी लगती हैं — खिलौने, मिठाइयाँ, गुब्बारे, सपेरों का खेल और झूला। लेकिन उसके माता-पिता उसे कुछ नहीं दिलाते।
जब वह झूले को ध्यान से देख रहा होता है, तभी वह अपने माता-पिता से बिछड़ जाता है। शुरू में उसे चीज़ें लेने की इच्छा होती है, लेकिन जब वह खो जाता है, तो उसे अब कुछ नहीं चाहिए — उसे सिर्फ अपनी मां और पिता चाहिए।
एक दयालु आदमी उसे संभालने की कोशिश करता है और उसे मिठाई, गुब्बारे, फूल और झूला दिखाता है, लेकिन बच्चा कुछ नहीं लेता और सिर्फ रोता है — “मुझे मेरी मां चाहिए, मुझे मेरे पिता चाहिए!”

📌 3. Word Meaning 

📌 4. Extracted Questions with Answers (NCERT)

Q1. What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?

Answer (Simple):
The child sees toys, insects, worms, mustard-field, dragonflies, and doves. He lags behind because he gets attracted to all these things and stops to watch them.

Q2. In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?

Answer (Simple):
He wants sweets (burfi), a gulmohur garland, balloons, the snake charmer’s music and a ride on the roundabout.
He moves on because he knows his parents will refuse every time.

Q3. When does he realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and insecurity been described?

Answer (Simple):
He realises he is lost when he turns around after asking for the roundabout ride and finds his parents gone.
His fear is shown through his loud crying, running in all directions, wet eyes, muddy clothes, and shouting “Mother, Father!”

Q4. Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?

Answer (Simple):
Because he is scared and wants only his parents. Toys and sweets do not matter to him anymore.

Q5. What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?

Answer (Simple Opinion):
The story doesn’t tell the ending clearly, but it hints that the kind man may help him find his parents. Most likely, the child is reunited with his parents.