WATCHA GONNA DO, ROSIE SINGH?
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...
READ MOREMeet 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...
READ MOREIt’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...
READ MOREUma, Not-So-Perfect. A perfectly captivating title, calculated to raise a lot of expectations. So does it live up to its promise? Penned by...
READ MOREDear Aunty presents the thought processes of an extraordinarily ordinary middle schooler, Apoorva Joshi. In a style reminiscent of the Wimpy Kid...
READ MOREYoung 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...
READ MOREMost books for young adults (and I’m including American and British ones here, since there just aren’t enough Indian YA books yet to...
READ MOREIf 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...
READ MOREWar 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...
READ MORESatire 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...
READ MOREAnthologies, whether they comprise stories by one writer or several, are tricky things to get right. If the anthology has stories by different...
READ MOREThe title conjures up enough images of rampaging spooks cutting through internal wiring, fiddling around with apps, playing havoc with screens –...
READ MOREGrowing 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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