K. Suneetha Rani&s;s paper, ‘Bama, the Nature Teacher’ proposes to discuss Bama&s;s love for ecology and the animal world as depicted in her select short fiction. It also proposes to discuss Bama&s;s short fiction as the best means of instruction for children on the environment, ecology, co-existence, animal world, human values, equality, and fraternity among humans and between humans and animals/birds.