A Silly Story of Bondapalli (English)
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"Are you there, Amma?" "Are you inside, Amma?" Kiran looks everywhere in the kitchen, in the balcony and even in the unlikeliest of places! Where is amma? follows Nandini Nayar's whimsical What Did You See? and the very popular What Shall I Make? which has editions in the US and the UK and was cited by the Honour List of the United States board on Books for Young People (USBBY) in 2010. Srividya Natarajan's charming watercolour illustrations make this book one warm and irresistible hide-and-seek story. Read more
Roll it, pat it, poke in eyes, stick on nose and ears and a ball of chapati dough can turn into almost anything! the endearing illustrations follow the quirks of a child’s imagination. Read more
A bird’s nest? A cow with two horns? No, it’s Minu’s hair and she does NOT like it. Her mother, her father, her grandmother try hard to tame it. But her grandfather is unconcerned… the illustrations of this charming story give Minu’s hair a truly wild, tactile feel as it spills exuberantly through the pages. Read more
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Whose colour is GREEN, RED, YELLOW, BLUE.? A little boy asks and sets off a tussle over who owns which colour, as the sun watches the fun! Read more
‘Tell me please: What is The Night?’ asks a little girl of the earthworm, the owl, the firefly… Glowing out from the pages, their answers merge into a tapestry of the more mysterious sides of night-time and the curious habits of creatures that come to life in darkness. An incredible ‘nature facts’ book, in which breathtaking visuals and witty verse illuminate an alternative world where light and sight don’t matter. As the bat says… Oh you creatures of the light! Can you EVER know the night? You need light so much for sight When evening falls you don’t feel right. Read more
After I am Different! and Same and Different, Manjula Padmanabhan merrily takes puzzles to a whole new level of stimulation and challenge, while remaining true to her pet theme of identity and plurality. The brilliantly rendered pictures and designs in We are Different! point to ways of perceiving similarity and difference through structure, detail and perspective. Children and grown-ups, too, will have their cognitive skills excitingly teased. Read more
Concerned by the divisive forces of communalism and its influence on children, the Centre for Science, Culture and Education conducted a workshop to examine ways of dealing with the situation. This collection of short stories focusing on communal harmony is an offshoot of this workshop. It is the first in a series on affirmative themes. Contributors: Zai Whitaker, Poile Sengupta, Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Savithri Narayanan, Swapna Dutta, Hemangini Ranade and Sawan Dutta. Read more
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