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A very welcome change in children’s books in recent times is the emergence of themes like loss, death, separation, disability, and parental...
READ MOREA very welcome change in children’s books in recent times is the emergence of themes like loss, death, separation, disability, and parental...
READ MOREA draw-it-yourself picture book. What could that be? Enter Jerry Pinto’s Monster Garden to find out. Reading Monster Garden was an experience that...
READ MOREWriters are often asked where their stories come from. It truly is the most important question in the world, right up there with how to make a...
READ MOREThis 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...
READ MOREIts not that nonsense has not been around – Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol was (and is) loved by scores of Bengali children and in its English avatar by...
READ MOREForgive me for not being able to shout from the rooftops about this one. I have looked and re-looked to see if I am missing some magic that might...
READ MOREIn a country which has twenty-two official languages, and with so many households speaking two or more of them, a book which forgoes text and...
READ MOREOn one end of the spectrum, you have children whose lives are over-scheduled with classes for every kind of scholastic and extracurricular...
READ MOREThe protagonist of this story, Veeru, visits a circus, dreams of having his own one, and then goes on to invite his family to witness his...
READ MOREIntergalactic Idol is a light-hearted take on the numerous Idol TV shows scouting for new talent and on a schoolboy’s imagination when he...
READ MORE“As a child, we are called liars for having a wild imagination. As an adult, we are called authors.” Shals Mahajan and Timmi of the eponymous...
READ MORENikoo’s Paintbrush by Gurpreet Kaur is about a boy with dreaming eyes who paints things to life. The story follows in the magical tradition of the...
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