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Posted 15 September 2016 by Goodbooks

Children’s book publishers are constantly trawling the slush piles in search of fresh, original voices. One imagines that when Lalita Iyer’s...

Posted 1 September 2016 by Goodbooks

This is the second book in the Bookasura series by author Arundhati Venkatesh. I haven’t read the first book – be warned that there are many...

Posted 1 August 2016 by Goodbooks

If there was ever a Bollywood film written as a YA novel, Red Turban, White Horse would be it. There’s an attractive (and socially-approved thin)...

Posted 1 November 2015 by Goodbooks

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...

Posted 1 May 2015 by Goodbooks

Everybody says that true bravery isn’t about not being scared; it’s about confronting your fear by doing what you are scared of anyway. That is...

Posted 15 April 2015 by Goodbooks

One doesn’t often get to read a book translated from Hebrew. Naturally, an Indian reader would look forward to learning something about Israel or...

Posted 1 March 2015 by Goodbooks

It has become fashionable for literary pundits and their ilk to debate on the merits – or lack thereof – of young adult fiction and whether we...

Posted 1 August 2014 by Goodbooks

This is a welcome addition to books that are available for young readers. It weaves fiction with facts about creatures – big and small...

Posted 15 May 2012 by Goodbooks

Paper Play could have been aptly subtitled “The Journey of a Piece of Paper”. Manju finds a sheet of paper that she has no use for. She crumples...

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