Nivedita Sen Taking stock of children’s books in India in English more than sixty years after Independence, could we rate them to be among the...
READ MOREJaya Bhattacharji Rose India is the second most populated country in the world with 50% under the age of twenty-five and 65% under thirty-five1...
READ MORENilima Sinha Many of us have grown up on books written by Enid Blyton. I remember my first exposure to the ever green author. Every page in the...
READ MORECity Stories: Tales from Here and There Scholastic, 2008, pp. 194, Rs. 195.00 Victory Song By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Puffin, 2007, pp...
READ MOREThis children’s issue of The Book Review comes out in a post Harry Potter world. In July 2007, to much hype and anticipation, Harry Potter and the...
READ MOREAli’s World Compiled by Badal and Swapna Mukhopadhyay, with a foreword by Aamir Khan Lotus Roli Books, New Delhi, 2008, pp. 96, Rs. 995.00 A...
READ MORECurrent Tamil Books for the Young K.S. SUNDARAM Vanathi Pathippagam, Palaniappa Brothers, Saiva Sidhanta Noorpathippu Kazhagam, New Century Book...
READ MOREUMA SEHANAVIS Children’s literature in Bengal owes its first flowering to the awakened consciousness of Bengal’s intellectuals even as...
READ MOREGEETA DOCTOR Once upon a time, not very long ago, a small girl asked for a doll. It had to be a very special doll, with golden hair and blue eyes...
READ MOREThe much-talked-about International Year of the Child is past the half-year mark. The book world in India was full of promises of what it would do...
READ MORE‘When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For...
READ MORE‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’ Publishers all over the country are going in for children’s...
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