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Posted 26 April 2018
by goodbooks
by Yamini Vijayan Over the last year, Pratham Books has published a mix of simple and imaginative fiction and non-fiction books on StoryWeaver...
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WHAT MAKES A BOOK AWARD-WORTHY?
Posted 2 March 2018
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With The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Awards for 2018 done and dusted, we chatted with some of our jury members and asked them what they think is...
READ MOREAGE NO BAR
Posted 8 December 2017
by Revathi Suresh
Why I continue reading to and with my grown-up children I once read to an adult, one beloved to me, who was in the throes of depression. Feeling...
READ MORELOOKING IN TO LOOK OUT
Posted 8 December 2017
by Roopa Pai
Why I write Indian stories for Indian children Sometimes, I think of my generation – the kids who grew up in the seventies and eighties and read...
READ MOREREADING, COMPREHENSION, MEMORY, IMAGINATION
Posted 8 December 2017
by Revathi Suresh
How I grew up reading with my daughter A frequently asked question lobbed at most writers is the one about ‘tips’ on reading. How do you begin...
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Posted 8 December 2017
by Goodbooks
A glimpse into the changing face of young adult fiction in India Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, the stories we read were all very much...
READ MOREHAPPY FAMILIES? MAYBE NOT!
Posted 8 December 2017
by Goodbooks
Indian Young Adult books take on the holy grail of society, the family For a long time, the family in Indian children’s literature had been...
READ MOREBETWEEN THE COVERS
Posted 8 December 2017
by Maegan Dobson Sippy
Slumber-inducing stories make for better bedtimes Ask any new parent what they want most, and the answer is likely to be – sleep. That’s not...
READ MOREA GOOD KIND OF CRAZY
Posted 8 December 2017
by Anil Menon
Give your kids the gift of science-fiction I wasn’t lucky enough to inherit a crazy uncle, but I discovered science-fiction, so it worked out more...
READ MOREORPHANS OF THE MOTHER TONGUE
Posted 8 December 2017
by Anil Menon
What we lose when we lose our mother tongue Sometimes I dream in Malayalam. In these dreams, I meet my late father Cherukulath Raman Ravindran...
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BOOK MEETS BABY
Posted 31 May 2017
by Maegan Dobson Sippy
Why it’s never too early to kick-start the reading habit by Maegan Dobson Sippy The importance of reading for pleasure is a phrase we often hear…...
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