For the film see, The Blue Umbrella (film).

The Blue Umbrella is a children's novel written by Ruskin Bond. The story is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her bear claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella. In a village where the richest man who is the shop keeper who keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles due to no refrigerator, an umbrella is a precious thing to have .The people in the village become very fond of her. Soon the shop keeper becomes envious of the umbrella and employs a boy to steal it. One day the girl finds her umbrella missing. Soon after the shop-keeper gets a similar umbrella but a red one. With this the center of attraction shifts from the little girl to the shop keeper. However his celebrity status doesn't last very long as the villagers discover the umbrella is the stolen umbrella, only it had been dyed red. As a result the shop keeper's name is tarnished in the village. The story concludes with the little girl giving the umbrella to the shop keeper and dancing down the road, happily.

This story appeared in Bond's collection of Short Stories- Children's Omnibus

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