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Five timeless stories from an internationally acclaimed fabulist and poet. Playful and gentle, they traverse layers of myth with ease to speak to readers of all ages. Well-known artist Nilima Sheikh's colours and delicate textures enhance the nuanced writing. This is the coming together of two fine minds to create a contemporary classic.
ISBN: 9789350461761
Pages: 36
Avg Reading Time: 1 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Sheela's Two Homes
- Author Name:
Nina Sabnani
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- Description: Sheela is any happy child growing up in Sukkur, Sind – playing with friends, sewing dresses for her dolls... She lives with her uncle whom she calls Baba, father, just across the road from her real parents. The turbulent times in the run up to Independence don’t touch her. Till suddenly, there’s Partition. The gentle unfolding softens realities of a childhood quite far removed from today’s readers. Springing from yet another animation film by Nina Sabnani, it is her mother’s own story, and she continues that connection with the choice of visuals – fragments of cloth, touches of embroidery, that tell of a life across two countries, with two fathers, in two homes.
Rupa The Elephant
- Author Name:
Mickey Patel
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- Description: Telugu English - Bilingual Book
Waiting for Turtles
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Pankaj Sekhsaria +1
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- Description: Samrat is giddy with excitement. He and his mother Seema, a sea turtle researcher, are headed to Tarmugli Island in the hopes of observing nesting turtles. On a quiet, empty beach, under a blanket of stars, they wait. Will the turtles come? Pankaj Sekhsaria’s beautiful story is an awe-inspiring look at these elusive creatures, while Vipin Sketchplore’s stunning illustrations exquisitely capture the lush landscape of the island and the glistening waters of the ocean.
The Sky Queen
- Author Name:
Mamang Dai +1
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- Description: A superb retelling of another age-old classic folk tale from Arunachal Pradesh. The story of Nyanyi Myete, the legendary celestial queen from the Kojum-Koja civilization, who came out of the Great Deluge to give us the message of harmony in the natural world.
Robinhood Ki Kahaniyan
- Author Name:
Ajay Raj
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- Description: No Description Available for this Book
Jhuplichi Madhachi Peti
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Achintyarup Ray
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- Description: बाबा कुठे आहेत? तो अजून परत का आला नाही? संध्याकाळ होत असताना झुपली अस्वस्थ आहे. तिचे वडील मध गोळा करण्यासाठी घनदाट जंगलात गेले आहेत आणि ती घाबरली आहे. कारण जंगलात वाघ आहेत. कारण लोक कधी आत जातात आणि कधी बाहेर पडत नाहीत. बाबांना रोज धोक्यात जावे का? झुप्लीला एक कल्पना आहे – मधाचे खोके! मूडने भरलेली चित्रे आणि मजकूर झुप्लीच्या सततच्या चिंतेला भव्य सुंदरबनच्या झाडामध्ये विणतात, हे ठिकाण जितके सुंदर आहे तितकेच धोकादायक आहे, या कथेत मध गोळा करणाऱ्यांच्या दुर्दशेकडे लक्ष वेधले आहे.
Little Tara's Big Fire
- Author Name:
Shreeja Rao
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- Description: Stories light up a fire inside Tara. But not everyone likes her stories. The fire inside her slowly dims. Will she find her fire again?
One Magical Morning
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: When Jishnu asks for a son from the Sun God, he does not expect to get pregnant himself! Read this book to know how Jishnuís pregnancy begins to change him and his village.
Guess Who
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Geeta Dharmarajan
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- Description: This is a song that most of us have sung as children. Katha brings this old favourite back to life, with words that resonate in english. Enjoy! “If you are getting inundated with questions about who makes everything and where everything comes from, then this book may satisfy your child for a bit, until she begins to question the answer to “Guess Who?” provided in the book.” — Parenting “A lovely attempt to connect the children to nature all over again and to encourage them to offer gratefulness to the great creator of this whole magic. My appreciation for publishers like Katha increases manifolds when I come across such sparkling pearls. The beauty of written words has been accentuated by the artwork by children of Katha Lab School.” — Saffron Tree
Brahmavin Pattaampoochi
- Author Name:
Meena Raghunathan
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- Description: Soori loves to draw and paint. But where he lives now with his mother is a rundown neighbourhood, unclean, unsafe and completely colourless! He wants to move away, but knows they can’t. He wishes that colours would rain down and brighten the buildings. A few days later, Soori finds himself amidst painters, paint cans and brushes! What’s going on? Painterly pictures echo real textures in a story about trying to bring colour and hope into a community.
Colour-Colour Kamini
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Radhika Chadha
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- Description: Kapila Aunty is teaching the little chameleons how to change colour, one at a time. But Kamini gets excited and goes red, purple, green, yellow . . . she just can’t stop! The flashy-splashy third story in the ever popular series about Bahadur the baby elephant!
Colour-Colour Kamini
- Author Name:
Radhika Chadha
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- Description: Kapila Aunty is teaching the little chameleons how to change colour, one at a time. But Kamini gets excited and goes red, purple, green, yellow . . . she just can’t stop! The flashy-splashy third story in the ever popular series about Bahadur the baby elephant!
Pravaas Ke Rahasya
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: Have you ever thought what it would be like to travel thousands of miles away from home, and then travel back again a few months later? Believe it or not, some birds, animals and insects do this every year! But how do they know where to go? How do they find their way back home? Read this book and find out about migration and its great mysteries!
Travelling Seeds
- Author Name:
Lavanya Karthik
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- Description: Flyer, floater, trickster, hitchhiker! Did you know that seeds can take on the most amazing roles in their quest to keep their species alive? Read on to explore the different ways seeds travel, and also meet the animals that help them on these journeys. Longlisted for WWF Greenlitfest Honour Book Award 2021
The Blockprinted Tiger
- Author Name:
Joeanna Rebello Fernandes
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- Description: He unfurled a turquoise bale and draped it on the tiger Who, in the manner of a model twirled before the mirror Watch out – there’s a tiger strolling through a Jaipur bazaar! But wait. Is he looking for prey… or PRINTS? A wildly whacky saga of a runaway tiger from Ranthambore, in deliciously slick verse, with colour-popping pictures, that will have you ROARING with fun!
Pia Goes to Chandni Chowk
- Author Name:
Shinibali Mitra Saigal
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- Description: Nini’s favourite memories of growing up in Chandni Chowk are those of delicious creamy and fluffy mithai. But Nini can’t go all the way to the old city any more. So Pia brings Chandni Chowk home!
Tey Shu Joyu?
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Nandini Nayar
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- Description: After a school trip to the zoo, Amma is surprised that Meera has seen no animals – not a monkey, a lion, or even a giraffe... But why did Meera see no animals there? Her lively mother forgets to ask! Zestful pictures capture the hilarious inversion of role play.
I'm So Sleepy
- Author Name:
Radhika Chadha
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- Description: Bahadur, the little elephant has forgotten how to sleep. Worried and very, very sleepy, he goes to his animal friends for help. But they all sleep in their own different ways – elephants don't sleep like that! What will Bahadur do? The snoozy-woozy first story in the ever popular series about Bahadur the baby elephant! Available in Mundari. For more details, please contact us.
Kanna Panna
- Author Name:
Zai Whitaker
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- Description: Words rollick and frolic in Kanna's head, yet he hardly speaks. One day, he is with his family at the cave temples when the lights go off. Everyone is frightened, except Kanna. Light or no light, it makes no difference because he can't see anyway. And as he confidently leads the way out, he finds himself talking… Words tumble out to unleash the playful chatterbox within – Kanna Panna! A joyous story that neatly inverts the notion of ‘disability’. Warm, strong pictures pick up the nuances to portray a child for whom visual impairment is just the way it is – and is even a chance to have some fun!
COME!
- Author Name:
Reshmi Dastidar
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- Description: The stars give way to the sun, the clouds to rain, the egg to the little bird… Things change. This truth is brought to children in a charmingly simple way. Dramatic pictures flow into each other to give a sense of movement, of the idea of change.
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