Lakdi ki kathi... jungle jungle baat chali hai... are beautiful poems penned by Gulzar.
Same play, tone, freshness, rhythm and a permissive language make this book.
एक बिजली की नोंक लगी ऊनी बादल को,
उधड़ के तागा-तागा बादल बरस गया।
With just a few words, a whole scene is sketched for us.
If the book has the light of Gulzar's words, Allen's illustrations have clouds filled with watercolours.
27 beautiful poems, with pleasing illustrations.
A book that will bring children and adults on the same page.
ISBN: 9789392873287
Pages: 56
Avg Reading Time: 2 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Brahma's Butterfly
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Meena Raghunathan
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- Description: With great imagination, Brahma the creator has fashioned all things on earth, even the greedy caterpillar. One day, however, it chomps its way through his colourful garden and Brahma gets very angry. But then, it was Brahma himself who gave the caterpillar its huge hunger, wasn’t it? So what was the caterpillar to do? And now, what will Brahma do? An amusing story of what happens when the creator makes a small but big mistake!
My Ammamma is NOW A CAT
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Sowmya Rajendran
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- Description: Ammamma sleeps so much, likes to watch birds, and even has whiskers… JUST LIKE A CAT! Follow her feline moves through pictures that are just as whimsical as this story about a grandmother who declares that it is now time for her to be a cat.
Circle of Life
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Tanya Majmudar +1
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- Description: Fara is a young bee with a dream. Journey with her and members of her hive as they grow up in the beautiful, lush green forests of India.
Yes, Hutoxi!
- Author Name:
Radhika Chadha
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- Description: Mannu, Chandu, Anna and Akka are fed up of Hutoxi the horse — she snorts and scolds and spoils their fun. And then suddenly one day, Hutoxi disappears. Where has she gone? Will she never come back? The bossy-horsy fifth story in the ever popular series about Bahadur the baby elephant!
Thangam Of Mehrgarh
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: Meet a friend from the Indus Valley! Thangam lived 9000 years ago and was part of a great civilization. Yet, she was just like you ñ dreamy, restless and wanting to do everything all at once.
Sera Learns To Fly
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Vinitha +1
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- Description: “Colourful pictures that will catch your eye and create an impatience in you to turn the page to read more.” — The Hindu Winner of FICCI Publishing Awards 2019 in the Children’s Book of The Year category Shortlisted in the picture book category of Neev Book Awards 2019
Heroes Do Not Grow On Trees
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Sudha Puri
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- Description: Heroes Do Not Grow On Trees written by Sudha Puri and illustration done by Amitava Sengupta.Age group 6 TO 10 YEARS.
Bishnu The Dhobi Singer
- Author Name:
Subhadra Sen Gupta
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- Description: Details awaited
City of Stories
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Rukmini Banerji +1
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- Description: Nobody in the city has time to tell a story, until Didi and a little girl start a tidal wave of stories, that washes over everybody. Read this fascinating fable of the transformation of a city into the City of Stories.
Chintuno Khovayelo Khand
- Author Name:
Vrinda Baliga
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- Description: It’s Monday morning. Time for school. And his model of the earth…? Chintu Chitnis suddenly remembers he hasn’t made it! There’s a last-minute scramble to finish the project, with his little sister Pihu pitching in not very helpfully. And then, in school, Chintu finds an entire continent missing! Where did it go? Set in a Konkani household, this light and humorous story with playful pictures is a quick first introduction to the continents of the world.
Dungi Dance
- Author Name:
Bhavna Jain Bhuta
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- Description: Dhum Dhum Dhum… dhup dhup dhup… Dungi dances to a dhinchak beat in this foot-tapping story that will make young readers move and groove, clap and tap! Big sheep, small sheep, bored sheep, happy sheep… eye-catching visuals bring to life the dance and drama in a woolly world.
A Moon Full of Ants
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Aparna Kapur
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- Description: A lake with seven shoes, a bowlful of autumn, and a set of teeth that’s home to a unicorn. What a delightful, topsy-turvy world to live in. Here’s your invitation.
The Animal Plot
- Author Name:
Lokesh Khodkea
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- Description: It’s easy to count one dog or five cows, but how about a dozen different animals? Travel to farms in various states of India and figure out how to use tools to understand data.
More Short Stories for Children
- Author Name:
Shefali Mullick +4
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- Description: Collection of 18 short stories for children of age group 10-15 years and written by multiple writers.
Hamari Duniya
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Sandhya Rao +1
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- Description: Our World invites us to read beyond simple text and see beyond vivid illustrations to rediscover something we already know: The earth is our home, and we are all connected through visible and invisible threads. Our World helps us to remember this. Joyously. Age group 6-8 years
When I Grow Up I'll Have A House
- Author Name:
Jerry Pinto
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- Description: Details awaited
Dubki Saathi Ghar
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Priya Narayanan
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- Description: Yasmin’s home is a tin box, burning hot in summer and freezing cold in winter. But Dubki, her stray dog friend, has no home at all. How unfair! So Yasmin decides to build one for Dubki, just like she has seen her Ammi and Abbu build for others. A heart-tugging story on a child’s idea of home, centred round a family of migrant workers who construct big houses while living in hovels themselves, displaced and longing for their own home far away. Told in the voice of little Yasmin, it speaks straight to the child reader. Illustrations evoke a gentle glow of joy and hope.
The Freedom Sisters
- Author Name:
Menaka Raman
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- Description: Payoshni wants to do something big, spectacular, amazing and fabulous for the Independence Day celebrations in Godavari Colony. But there’s not enough time and Bandmaster Totoji is not being helpful, either. A story about finding and pursuing one’s passion. Leading Level ;3 for children who are ready to read on their own
Chandiranolagina Mola - Bilingual
- Author Name:
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.
Picture Gandhi
- Author Name:
Sandhya Rao
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- Description: Who was this man who so mesmerised the world, born over a century ago but whose words and wisdom are still so current, so compelling? Films, plays, books, media images and news stories bring Mahatma Gandhi regularly into our homes. His birthday, 2 October, is the International Day for Non-violence. But how do we relate this familiar yet distant icon to a child of today? This book attempts to shake off the aura and reach the person behind it. Black-and-white photographs, along with little thought bubbles that float through the pages, give us an intimate glimpse of the man for all times.
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