Puja smiles and smiles, and does not speak. She spends all her time with the foal, Takbak. But Takbak is going to be sold! What will Pooja do without her best friend?
About the Hook Book Series
In a world where children’s books often feel cut from the same cloth, Hook Books stand out as a vibrant blend of imagination, humour, and heart. Crafted as a bridge between picture books and early chapter books, this series delivers stories that spark joy and wonder, while remaining rooted in age-appropriate learning.
Hook Books keep the fun going with:
Short, digestible bits of text (perfect for budding readers)
Bright colour illustrations that pull kids into the story
Themes that speak to the everyday lives of children—plus a sprinkle of whimsy!
From fantasy tales to those that touch on more advanced ideas, Hook Books ensure that young readers are always in for a treat, no matter their reading level. Even better, these books take children on journeys through different parts of India, giving them a taste of the rich diversity of our world through local flavours, landscapes, and cultures. Whether the story takes place in bustling cities or quiet villages, Hook Books make every setting feel like home.
ISBN: 9780143450795
Pages: 40
Avg Reading Time: 1 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Padhna, Zara Sochna
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Krishna Kumar +1
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- Description: क्यों और क्या पढ़ना है, इस जिज्ञासा का अंत कैसे हुआ ? जब आप स्कूल में थे और जब आप उसी स्कूल में शिक्षक हैं तो आप वही कर रहे हैं जो आपके साथ किया जा रहा था। पढ़े हुए लोगों में पढ़ने को लेकर इतनी विरक्ति क्यों है इसे कृष्ण कुमार ने कितनी सरलता से समझाया है। इस जटिल संसार में कृष्ण कुमार को पढ़ना ख़ुद को सरल बनाना है। हर बच्चा पढ़ना चाहता है लेकिन हर बच्चा पढ़ाई से दूर हो जाता है। इस पुस्तक को पढ़ने के लाभ नहीं हैं क्योंकि यह पुस्तक लाभ के लिए पढ़ने की मनोवृत्ति का प्रतिकार करती है। तय आपको करना है कि पढ़ना है या नहीं और क्यों पढ़ना है । आनंद आया। किसी ने पढ़ाया तो नहीं लेकिन पढ़ने का रास्ता बता दिया। शिक्षण में जो लोग हैं वो कैसे नहीं पढ़ाना चाहिए, उसके गुर सीखने के लिए इसे पढ़ सकते हैं। माँ बाप,जिन्होंने माँ और बाप बनने के बहुत पहले पढ़ना छोड़ दिया लेकिन चाहते हैं कि उनका बच्चा पढ़ें वो अगर इसे पढेंगे तो मज़ा आएगा।
Gajapati Kulapati-Dhobukkadeer!
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Ashok Rajagopalan
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- Description: After his big-big sneeze, Gajapati Kulapati is back with a SPLASH! Like the very popular first book, sounds, rhythm, and repetition make this too a perfect read aloud for little ones.
Lalu and the Red Kite
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Ashish Sengupta
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- Description: The book tells the story of Lalu and his red kite in wondrous colours. The kite is Lalu’s love and he is ready to go to any length to keep the kite with him.
Chik-chik Girl
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Komilla Raote +1
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- Description: Mona loves to complain. Sometimes about the tasty khichdi her Amma cooks and sometimes about Dada’s long legs. Meet the chik-chik girl and her family.
MAGNOLIAS
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Malati Shah
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- Description: Gulab works happily from dawn to dusk in the garden at the house on top of the hill. One evening he takes back a big bunch of magnolias for his wife – “those flowers that look like the moon”. But on the way, he gives away a flower to Raju Ghodawala with the horse, one to Tsering and her baby who have come from Tibet, another to Lachhami going back to her cows... And for his wife? As we follow him home, the hill town of Shimla emerges in unexpected detail. People and their stories come together as in a large painting, captured here in the Pahari miniature art style of Himachal.
Alamelu's Appetite
- Author Name:
Jaya Paramasivan
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- Description: Awaited
Yen Nilaththai Naan Kaappaattruvaen
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Rinchin
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- Description: Mati pesters her grandmother and father for her own plot of land. When she does get it, she works hard. And then she hears that a company wants to make a coal mine in their village – the enormous black pit that will eat up all their lands, like it has in the next village… As always, Rinchin powers her questions through irresistible storytelling. The little girl’s anxiety about losing her land to “a monster machine” cuts close to the heart as it takes head-on an issue that is ravaging tribal Chhattisgarh, where this story is set, and every other place where there is ‘development’ at a cost.
Kitabon Wala Ghar
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Jasbir Bhullar +1
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- Description: "एक नया देश बन रहा था", वयस्क चर्चा कर रहे थे। मुझे पता चला कि जब एक नया देश बनता है, तो आइसक्रीम और कैंडी बेचने वाले हमारी सड़क पर आना बंद कर देते हैं। यह एक अच्छी चीज नहीं है।" जसबीर भुल्लर ने कहानियों के इस छोटे से संग्रह में 1946-49 के दौरान अपने बचपन की यादों को बड़े प्यार से संजोया है। उनके कोमल शब्द सड़कों पर हल्के-हल्के चलते हैं और आपको एक हल्का सा खिंचाव देते रहते हैं जैसे कोई बच्चा आपको अपनी नई खोज का रास्ता दिखा रहा हो। उसकी खोज एक मरता हुआ पौधा है जिसे वह घर या किताबों से भरा घर लाता है। चंद्रमोहन कुलकर्णी की कलाकृति पाठ को एक धार, एक रंगीन और जीवंत धार देती है। एक नज़र आपको इसे दोबारा देखने के लिए आमंत्रित करेगी।
Prabir’s New Flute
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Asha Nehemiah +1
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- Description: Prabir plays music at every happy event in his village. But when his flute breaks, many strange and funny things start happening.
Lights Camera Action! The Life And Times Of Dada Saheb Phalke
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Rupali Bhave +2
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- Description: "Watch people move in the magic photographs! A picture two miles long! Only three annas!" This is how a magician named Dadasaheb Phalke invited people in the street to come and watch his first film. Other actors in this amazing story about the genius of Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian Cinema, include a cook who played a woman and the first film editor in Indian cinema who happened to be a woman and his wife! If you are a fan of films, you are sure to be fascinated by this script of his life and the making of first ever Indian film. It has all the ingredients of blockbuster! Written by Rupali Bhave ,Illustrated by Sunayana Nair Kanjilal and kannada translation by Brinda N. Rao. The development of this book has been supported by P.A.N.I. Foundation.
Bismillah Khan
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Shivendra Kumar Singh
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- Description: The book traces the life and legacy of Ustaad Bismillah Khan, the shehnai maestro and symbol of a plural India. He was born to Paigambar Baksh Khan and Mitthan Khan in Dumraon on 21st March 1916. He was honoured with several awards, including the Bharat Ratna, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan, for his contribution to Indian Classical music. He devoted his life to the shehnai, taking it to an international platform.
One Lonely Unicorn
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Meenakshi Bharadwaj +1
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- Description: An innovative book that introduces the concept of numbers through a story. Children will love the unicorn and her many animals friends! Through this song you can make up lots of funny and nice things about unicorns. “Delightful illustrations make children learn counting by counting the animals in the forest. The one unicorn, the two birds, the three elephants … ” — The Hindu
Chandrama Sasalu - Bilingual
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Indrani Krishnaier +1
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- Description: When a herd of elephants creates trouble in the jungle, do the little rabbits run away in fear? No! From Aztec to Chinese, there are many versions of the story about the rabbit in the moon. The illustrations for this bilingual retelling are based on the pithora folk style of central India, which derives from cave art.
Chitty: A Dog and Her Forest Farm
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Serow +1
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- Description: Chitty lives a free-spirited life on a forest farm in the Western Ghats. She has hair-raising encounters with wild animals, gobbles up termites, and loves jackfruit chips. She is also a wise and loyal friend, with an extraordinary mind and soul. Follow Chitty’s adventures down this winding forest trail — she will make you laugh and cry and marvel at her wonderful world. Winner of Mehlli Gobhai Children’s Book Illustrator Award 2022 *Parag Honour Book 2023
Hum Jangal Ke Jagar Magar
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Raj Shekhar
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- Description: हम ऊँचे, झूमते हुए पेड़ हैं हम हवा में उगने वाले जामुन हैं हम बाघ हैं, हम खरगोश हैं हम गड़गड़ाते हुए भालू हैं... कविता की लय हमें हरे-भरे और जीवंत जंगल में खींच ले जाती है। लेकिन इसके हर हिस्से में इतने डूबे हुए 'हम' कौन हैं? प्रकृति और उसके बीच रहने वालों के लिए इस प्रकाश और गौरवशाली गीत में शब्द और चित्र एक साथ गाते हैं। तेलंगाना के एक आदिवासी गीत से प्रेरित और एक प्रसिद्ध गोंड कलाकार की शानदार कला के साथ, यह बच्चों की प्रवृत्ति को सही तरीके से पकड़ता है - शब्दों और लय के साथ मनोरंजन, और प्राकृतिक दुनिया की कनेक्टिविटी के बारे में जागरूक होने की अभी तक अछूती क्षमता।
Kali Mattu Kere Haavu
- Author Name:
Zai Whitaker +2
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- Description: Kali hates school. And school hates him, he thinks, for he has no friends. His classmates find him strange. He wishes his father were an ‘ordinary' bus-conductor or postman instead of a snake-catcher, even if one of the most celebrated in the Irula tribe. He worries that others will see him eating fried termites (his favourite snack!) and laugh. And then one day, a large rat snake creates havoc in the classroom... A simple, sensitive story crafted by a writer deeply involved with environmental issues. Best of Indian Children's Writing: Contemporary
Moaning Morris
- Author Name:
Franz Hubner +1
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- Description: A delightful little book that helps us realize that adapting to other people is easier than we think. A few sentences of fun facts about hedgehogs make the reading all the more interesting.
Lachmi Ki Ladaai
- Author Name:
Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: The evil asura Tobakachi wants to rule the world by not educating girls. But Lachmi knows better than to give in to his wicked plan.
The Story Of Shangmiyang The Tangkhul Giant
- Author Name:
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya +1
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- Description: A little book about the gentle, BIG giant who can sneeze up a storm. A visual delight, superbly illustrated by Suddhasattwa Basu. This story is excerpted and retold from a novel by Asomiya winner Asomiya Kumar Bhattacharyya, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith.
Khari Journeys through Kachchh
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Sujatha Padmanabhan +2
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- Description: Khari, a demoiselle crane on her first visit to Kachchh, journeys through the beautiful and diverse land, meeting many animals along the way. 8-12 years
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