Meet Rosie Singh, an eight-year-old who still wears bloomers, and now the whole world knows about it. There’s no way Rosie is ever going back to...
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It’s an intriguing title, even if it seems a bit lost on the cover, and sets up an expectation of pacey, perky writing, very with it and fun, and...
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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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Dear Aunty presents the thought processes of an extraordinarily ordinary middle schooler, Apoorva Joshi. In a style reminiscent of the Wimpy Kid...
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Young adult fiction is truly a difficult genre to write for. How adult can you be while writing for those who’ve just left childhood behind last...
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Most books for young adults (and I’m including American and British ones here, since there just aren’t enough Indian YA books yet to...
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If you haven’t seen Madhuri Purandare’s children’s books before, you are in for a treat; for you are about to enter the utterly enchanting...
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War has the ability to steal the security of a happy home and a comfortable life and throw people into the deep end. Set during the Second World...
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Satire is a tough genre to pull off for a young readership. For it to be effective, the context has to be firmly in place, and when one is talking...
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Anthologies, whether they comprise stories by one writer or several, are tricky things to get right. If the anthology has stories by different...
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The title conjures up enough images of rampaging spooks cutting through internal wiring, fiddling around with apps, playing havoc with screens –...
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Growing up, I don’t remember hearing the word ‘dementia’. All adults were old. It was just that some had more teeth than others. The cluster of...
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