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GONE GRANDMOTHER

Posted 26 March 2017 by goodbooks

A very welcome change in children’s books in recent times is the emergence of themes like loss, death, separation, disability, and parental...

MONSTER GARDEN

Posted 15 September 2016 by Goodbooks

A 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...

DREAM WRITER

Posted 1 September 2016 by Anil Menon

Writers 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...

KOOBANDHEE: THE ADVENTURES OF BALA AND THE BOOK-BARFING MONSTER

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...

WHIMSY

Posted 15 April 2016 by Goodbooks

Its 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...

NEELU’S BIG BOX

Posted 15 March 2016 by Goodbooks

Forgive 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...

FLUTTERFLY

Posted 1 November 2015 by Goodbooks

In 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...

MAKE. DO. BE.

Posted 15 September 2015 by Goodbooks

On one end of the spectrum, you have children whose lives are over-scheduled with classes for every kind of scholastic and extracurricular...

VEERU GOES TO THE CIRCUS

Posted 15 September 2015 by Goodbooks

The 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...

INTERGALACTIC IDOL

Posted 15 July 2015 by Goodbooks

Intergalactic Idol is a light-hearted take on the numerous Idol TV shows scouting for new talent and on a schoolboy’s imagination when he...

TIMMI IN TANGLES

Posted 15 June 2015 by Goodbooks

“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...

NIKOO’S PAINTBRUSH

Posted 1 June 2015 by Goodbooks

Nikoo’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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