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Winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing and two coveted Carnegie Medals, Margaret Mahy is recognized as one of the worldís most original re-inventors of language. And now, here is her favourite sneaky-peeky cat poem ó for every child. Available in Hindi and Tamil also. Beautifully illustrated by Anvadya Khatri, a student of Sanskriti School, New Delhi. Enjoy this playful book with your young book lover!
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Winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing and two coveted Carnegie Medals, Margaret Mahy is recognized as one of the worldís most original re-inventors of language.
And now, here is her favourite sneaky-peeky cat poem ó for every child. Available in Hindi and Tamil also. Beautifully illustrated by Anvadya Khatri,
a student of Sanskriti School, New Delhi.
Enjoy this playful book with your young book lover!
Book Details
A Moon Full of Ants
- Author Name:
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.
Kindness with Mahavira
- Author Name:
Chitwan Mittal +1
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- Description: This is a Board Book and not a Hard Bound Book. So, said he, “Be kind to all! Humungous or little or really, really small!” The Indian saint, Mahavira, believed that all living beings have a soul. And, that each soul is of equalvalue, be it an elephant, an ant or a person. He encourages us to be kind to all. This board book, Kindness With Mahavira will enable children to explore numerous ways of being kind to humans, to animals and to their own selves. The Series, Learning TO BE is a creative way to introduce your little ones to big values in an engaging manner. Written in simple text and magical verse, this series is perfect to read aloud to toddlers (2-4 year olds) and excellent for beginning readers (4-8 year olds). Look for other titles in this series: Service with Guru Nanak and Peace with Buddha. This is a Board Book and not a Hard Bound Book.
Shambhu and Me
- Author Name:
Samidha Gunjal
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- Description: Deascription of the book is awaited
Days With Thathu
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: A magically beautiful story about Malar and her grandfather. A laptime, bedtime, anytime story for you to share. Enjoy! A beginnerís book for children learning to read.
Monumental Maths
- Author Name:
Veena Prasad
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- Description: What do the pyramids, ancient temples and Jantar Mantar all have in common? Maths! Innovative architects across the world have used mathematics to build wonders that we still marvel at today.
Abu Aur Badi Hawa
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Shanti Krishnaswamy +1
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- Description: Tiny drops of water form vast seas, tiny grains of sand form gigantic deserts, and tiny tots and their wisdom form exciting stories. Come with us ... as we take you to meet our friends Abu, Nootan, Kokila, and Jishnu. Is there anyone like you?
Online Encounters and more 12 Teenage Stories
- Author Name:
Dipavali Sen +11
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- Description: Komal is shocked to learn that her parents, as youngsters, had exchanged letters before they had met each other. Then why is her mother dead against her seeing a person she had met online? Much against her wishes, Minu is all set to be a child bride, not if the bicycle brigade can help it. The girls set an example in the village for the others to follow. Bullied by Dhruv, Varun's life becomes miserable, so much so, he is ready to leave the school. What does Amit do to help both the boys? Can a shy and reticent boy like Sukhi become the centre of students' unrest and be ready to sacrifice his life? But wait...! There's someone who is keeping him out of harm's way? Who is it? And, is the person safe? These are some of the myriad themes depicted in this bunch of teenage stories.
Barefoot Husain
- Author Name:
Anjali Raghbeer
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- Description: When M.F. Husain loses his shoes, Jai offers to help find them. The two zoom in and out of his paintings, passing milestones in the artist's life
MINU AND HER HAIR
- Author Name:
Gayathri Bashi
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- Description: 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.
Lightning
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Prabhat +1
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- Description: लाइटनिंग रणथंभौर की एक बाघिन की कहानी है। उनके बारे में अनगिनत किस्सों में से प्रभात ने एक ऐसा किस्सा चुना है जो इंसानों और जंगली जानवरों की एकजुटता को दर्शाता है। संवेदनशील रूप से चित्रित, कहानी दिखाती है कि लाइटनिंग और लोग मिलकर रणथंभौर को वह स्थान बनाते हैं जो वह है। उगता सूरज-डूबता सूरज। वहाँ की रात है और रात का चाँद है और लाइटनिंग है। वह बोलती है तो पूरा जंगले बोल पड़ता है। सबको लगता है कि लाइटनिंग इस बार उनसे कुछ कह रही है। Age group 6-8 years
My Name is Amrita…Born to be an artist
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Anjali Raghbeer
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- Description: The story of a sensitive and talented girl who grows up to be one of India's foremost painters. It reads like a diary, and in fact includes actual lines from her childhood diaries. The seemingly random musings come together like deft strokes to sketch an intimate picture of her early years. Also featured are paintings she did when she was young and photographs taken by her father. The book traces her life till she sets sail for France on the journey for which she was born... to be an artist. At the end of the book is a section that introduces children to the life and work of the artist.
THE GREAT BIRDYWOOD GAMES
- Author Name:
Shamim Padamsee
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- Description: There’s once again a buzz in Birdywood – it is time for the great Games! Birds that fly and those that don’t are coming in from all over the world. Who flies fastest? Who dives deepest? While the best are tested, the rest have loads of fun! Amid much ruffling of feathers, tweeting and chirping, old records are smashed and new champions emerge, crowned by the grand peacock, Mor Khan. This sequel to Birdywood Buzz: Return of the Vulture, which sees some familiar faces and many new ones, is also an exciting way to get to know birds.
Tumhi Hey Karu Shakaal Ka?
- Author Name:
Ashok Rajagopalan
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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.
Brahmana Chitte
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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.
The Open Trunk
- Author Name:
Akhilesh Srivastava Chaman
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- Description: The Open Trunk
Yaake-Yaake Hudugi
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Mahashweta Devi
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- Description: Moyna lives in a little tribal village. She cannot go to school because she has to tend goats, collect firewood, fetch water… But she is so full of questions that the postmaster calls her the ‘why-why girl'! In this inspiring and delightful story, her first picture book, acclaimed Jnanpith award-winning writer Mahasweta Devi tells us how she meets Moyna (and her mongoose) and helps her find answers to all the why-whys – in books, that Moyna herself learns to read. Some of the translations have been done by well-known writers: Malayalam by Paul Zacharia, Tamil by Ambai, and Kannada by Girish Karnad. CBSE recommended
Gender Talk Big Hero Size Zero
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Sowmya Rajendran +1
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- Description: Aren’t sex and gender the same thing? Either male or female, right? Of course men and women are equal – but who calls the shots at home? Does what you wear ‘invite trouble’? Do women need to be ‘controlled for their own good’? Why is being different from the majority such a problem? With gender issues hitting news hotspots, there are more and more questions but answers are shrouded in stereotype and convention. This book ‘talks' directly to teens on all aspects of gender, lifting confusions and creating awareness. Alongside is a visual commentary that prods and provokes, even as it makes you laugh.
OLUGUTI TOLUGUTI
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Various Authors
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- Description: Welcome to a world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches and hatttima tim tims. Listen to the birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. Watch pom pom motor cars and chuk chuk trains go by. Play in the rain falling chham chham chham, and dance thai thaka thaka. It is a chemma chekka world of dam padam pappadams and kahbdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more. The 54 rhymes in 18 Indian languages celebrate the richness and vitality of India's multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English capture the sounds and rhythms of the original languages, which appear alongside and in transliteration.
Jadugar Khizr
- Author Name:
Negin Ehtesabian +1
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- Description: A timeless folktale from the magical world of ancient Persia ó illustrated in style!
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