Guest post by Anne Dayanandan: A Colourful Treasure Hunt
Librarian and reading specialist Anne Dayanandan shares her thoughts on our latest picture book, Many Colours of Us! PLUS suggested...
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Guest post by Priyadarshini Gogoi: Spooky Origins
When I was little, my grandmother would say, “Eat up! Eat up or the jokhini will come and get you.” I would be afraid (and slightly...
Guest post by Radhika Chadha: A juicy-shoocy story
A good decade-plus after Yes, Hutoxi!, Mannu the monkey jumped off a jamun tree to give the much loved Baby Bahadur series its sixth...
"I have been waiting 68 years for this book..."
Five-year-old Peter Marmorek was fascinated by the elephants he had read about in books, especially Dr Seuss’s Horton and Rudyard...
2021 in Books
We’ve tried to take you far and wide To give you the many sides Of people like or unlike you In many voices, many hues. And as we turn...
My Name Is Gulab: Interview with author-illustrator Sagar Kolwankar
How did the idea for My Name is Gulab come to you? I'm a visual person. A picture says a thousand words – or rather, a story! That's how...
International Dog Day 2021
Bow WOW! This International Dog Day take a ‘paws’ and turn into a dog with two tails! For it’s time to celebrate the furry friends who...
A children's book can transform a class!
A story is entertaining. But it can also hold glimpses of history, geography, culture, art… It can spark discussions from simple,...
World Elephant Day!
ELEPHANT ENCOUNTERS A dangerous face-off, cries of distress at night… A summer holiday in the jungles of Corbett country turns out to be...
15 going on 25!
August 15, 2021
Raksha Bandhan 2021: Bond > Band
Raksha Bandhan is more than just tying bands, sharing sweets, giving gifts... It really is about that strong bond like Fevikwik! (if you...
World Nature Conservation Day 2021
World Nature Conservation Day 2021 Books that help a child * Wonder * Understand * Care * Save * What is nature? Is it a rainbow or the...
Friendship Day Sing Along!
What are friends made of? This Friendship Day (1 August) we dip into Talking Tales from Tulika, our lively collaboration with Spotify, to...
Imagine You're A Bird...
In case you didn't know, we have a BRAND NEW activity book! Put together by the marvellously marvellous Sandhya Rao, this book is a think...
Celebrating Pride: Embracing differences, building acceptance and fostering love!
“A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colours because it knows it is beautiful inside out,” says a Canadian philosopher....
Happy Parent's Day: A whole lotta love for all the pet, plant and human caregivers!
‘Appreciate all parents throughout the world’ read this year’s global theme for Parents’ Day. Looking beyond the conventional notions of...
Happy Pride Month: Three cheers to diversity, inclusion and love!
This month, along with our dear young readers, parents, educators and patrons, we are celebrating diversity, and honouring pride. We'd...
'Being aware is the first step towards gender equality': Excerpts from 'Gender Talk – Big Hero, Size
With gender issues hitting the news hotspots more and more, there are questions and doubts, and the answers are covered by a smog of...
'Fiercely fun, madly morose and prone to spontaneous combustion': An extract from 'This is Me, Mayil
For every moment of clarity, young people are faced with several others filled with anger, confusion and self-doubt. Our Mayil Ganeshan...
A Book is a Bee: Review by Myth Aunty
Every once in a happy while we come across something that elevates one of our books (and our hearts) to unexpected heights. We always...
Uncle Nehru, Please Send an Elephant!: A review by Myth Aunty
Some books are born of serendipity. When we chanced upon an article in The Caravan about Nehru’s unique ‘elephant diplomacy’, we saw...
Parthiban's Dream: A review by Shefali Ganesh
While some books are pacy and thrilling, some are rich, slow and unputdownable. Very few, not only fall in one of these categories but...
Following the Friend of Numbers: Q and A with Satwik Gade
Our hot off the press picture book Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers written by Priya Narayanan and illustrated by Satwik Gade,...
"I often sit and wonder why I was drawn towards Ramanujan’s story"
Our hot off the press picture book Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers written by Priya Narayanan and illustrated by Satwik Gade,...