When Lori, a curious and wide-eyed slender loris, spies a bewildering catlike figure in the fading light of the evening, she instantly becomes...
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Maya in a Mess, like the others, is a chapter book for young readers, possibly a sequal to Meera Nair’s Maya Saves the Day. In this story...
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The old adage about not judging a book by its cover – and, by extension, title – turned out to be true in the case of Sowmya Rajendran’s Ashwathy...
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The frame narrative can be a highly imaginative and effective technique of storytelling. One of the best examples is, of course, the ever popular...
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Collaborative story writing isn’t the easiest of tasks, and this book is the result of a bold project involving four authors, two Indian and two...
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Fitting in — or not — is a fairly common theme in children’s fiction. Not having a place in your own world because you happen to be different can...
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Here’s the truth. Ranjit Lal has written some wonderful stories for children and young adults. He is a specialist in this genre, of long...
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In an era of rapid-fire fast-pacers, this book builds slowly. Mitali Perkins spends time painting a stunningly real picture of a small village in...
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Indian children’s writing is still waiting for a cracking contemporary detective series. It’s not that there haven’t been attempts, but there is...
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When it is done well, historical fiction can be a beautiful thing. The ‘boringness’ of names and dates and battles and ‘extent...
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Duckbill’s History Mystery series comes with an appropriate tagline, “Mysteries you’ll never find in history books”. Indeed, the things that...
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Having been part of the generation that grew up on a staple diet of Enid Blyton, one does sometimes miss a good old straightforward mystery story...
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