The cliche goes that in India cricket is more than a passion, it is a religion. Thousands or even lakhs of children play it with the dream of...
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Monkeys on a Fast is a fun, chuckle-inducing story adapted from a Buddhist fable. Chakrapani (Chakku), a monkey chieftain, and his band of...
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A very welcome change in children’s books in recent times is the emergence of themes like loss, death, separation, disability, and parental...
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The Gajapati Kulapati stories by Ashok Rajagopalan have become quite a favourite among picture book readers. Two books have been published in the...
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Children’s book publishers are constantly trawling the slush piles in search of fresh, original voices. One imagines that when Lalita Iyer’s...
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Folktales, epic narratives and legends connect people to their land, to an identity and to each other. Tales from Bengal is a classic collection...
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Uma, Not-So-Perfect. A perfectly captivating title, calculated to raise a lot of expectations. So does it live up to its promise? Penned by...
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Since Madhuri Purandare won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2014 for her contribution to Marathi literature, I’ve been wanting to get...
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A draw-it-yourself picture book. What could that be? Enter Jerry Pinto’s Monster Garden to find out. Reading Monster Garden was an experience that...
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Writers are often asked where their stories come from. It truly is the most important question in the world, right up there with how to make a...
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Once your kids are past the input-output stage (food in-poop out), and they venture into the big bad world where other people exist, their (and...
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Squiggle Gets Stuck attempts to fill a gap where, unfortunately enough, our school curriculum miserably falls short. While our children speak...
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