Zakir Hussain can be considered India’s most famous tabla player. Beginning his relationship with music at the age of 3, when he learnt to play the mridang, he has inspired countless budding musicians. He began playing concerts at the age of 12 and has since performed an average of 150 concerts a y ...
In an era of gender inequality and suppression of the voices of women, books like ‘Fearless: Stories of Amazing Women from Pakistan’ are crucial. They highlight some well-known women crusaders and some lesser-known ones as well – bringing them up to a global platform. These women come f ...
The Kumaon Secret Society Series by Olivier Lafont is off to a promising start with ‘The Rise of the Midnight King’. It is the beginning of a gripping saga featuring a group of children who meet in the village of Devagarh, high in the Kumaon hills. They reunite each summer to go on adventures (th ...
Albert Einstein is a scientist celebrated for his amazing sense of curiosity and theoretical work which has been the basis for generations of work to come. However, his accessibility to younger readers has always been limited and not many children have had a chance to explore his life.
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The ‘104 Storey Treehouse’ is the eighth book in Treehouse Series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. What began as a 13 storey treehouse, has now added levels with each book, reaching 104 storeys! The treehouse adventures are a telling of the hilarious adventures of Andy Griffiths and Terry Dent ...
The world of children’s literature has long been dominated by the genre of fiction. Non-fiction books have been sidelined to the realm of being of entirely ‘educational’. This has limited the exploration of strong female figures in non-fiction writing. ‘Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls’ p ...
The Bolds are much like any other family – with regular jobs writing Christmas cracker jokes, and children. They live in the suburb of Teddington, in West London, and live their lives much like any other British family. However, the Bolds are different from other Londoners in a very small way – t ...
Jane Goodall is a formidable figure in the world of science. She is the foremost expert on chimpanzees and has a career spanning more than 50 years. As a primatologist and anthropologist, she has inspired countless other scientists to pursue the field and has been an inspiration to many.
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Ruskin Bond began his writing career at the age of 16, with the short story ‘Untouchable’. He has gone on since, to mesmerize readers with his idyllic descriptions of a quiet life in the hills. His work is deeply influenced by the life he has led living in the foothills of the Himalayas, weaving ...
‘The Tree Boy’, written by Srividhya Venkat and illustrated by Nayantara Surendranath isn’t your run-of-the-mill children’s storybook. It touches upon feelings of empathy and imagining what it would be like to be in someone else’s shoes.
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Dav Pilkey, creator of the very popular ‘Captain Underpants’ graphic novels has written another hilarious and well-illustrated series, ‘Dog Man’. As is the case with all of Pilkey’s books, the cartoons and stories have been plotted out by his fictional duo – George and Harold. They are th ...
Kali Veerapathiran is an unlikely hero. No, he doesn’t have superpowers, nor can he solve crimes with his trusty sidekick. He is a hero in the small fishing village of Kovalam because he worked hard and pursued his dream – to dance!
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Humans are bound by the concept of time. They do not have the option to choose when they want to do what they want. There is a fixed notion of what should be done at what time and the human race follows it. Sounds a bit grim for a children’s book, doesn’t it?
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In this book, author and scholar Arshia Sattar remains true to Valmiki’s version of the Ramayana. However, with the original revering Rama as the just and noble hero, this book shows Rama’s younger brother Lakshmana in a much better light. Rama’s unju ...
Curious little Gul is startled early one morning when her radio begins to play the sounds of different birds chirping. Keen to know more, Gul follows the clues, only to end up in a lush Indian jungle.
Written in rhymes, this beautifully illustrated book exposes its readers to the wonderful ...
‘The Good Indian Child’s Guide to Eating Mangoes’ by Natasha Sharma is a funny, tongue in cheek look at the love India has for mangoes and how there is no “right” way to eat them! The text has been brought to life with illustrations which are simple yet witty.
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‘The Boy and Dragon Stories and Other Tales’ comes from author Suniti Namjoshi, who previously brought us the popular ‘Aditi Adventures’. The stories bring to light the unlikely friendship between a boy and a dragon. The ...
The book is narrated by a girl, whose Amma is telling her stories from when she was a young girl living in a village in Southern India. Amma’s stories straddle the line between fact and fiction. A bicycle that pedalled itself? Hy ...
Do you want to know more about Sita? Who she was and how she made the five choices of her life? When did she follow the rules and when did she choose to break them? In the Adbhuta Ramayana, Sita is a form of the goddess Kali who can defeat demons more powerful than Ravana. The book, ‘The Girl W ...
