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Where has everybody gone? Oh! They are busy finding out the weight of King’s favourite elephant! Wondering how this will be done? Join Leelavati as she solves this math mystery for you!
“Everything about this book is just right — The layout, the font size, the appropriate use of language and of course the illustrations.” — Young India Books
“Filled with paper-craft illustrations, this book is very colourful and is full of problem-solving concepts.” — RobinAge
For age 6+
ISBN: 9788189934040
Pages: 36
Avg Reading Time: 1 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Ende Bhoomiye Gnaan Rakshikkum
- Author Name:
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.
Animal Alphabet
- Author Name:
Manjula Padmanabhan
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- Description: Teeny-tiny ANTs Are busy Always working Never dizzy! Then there are flitty-witty Bats, inky-winky Crows, heehaw Donkeys and a sprightly animal-rhyme for every letter. With bright-bold cutout pictures, this is just the sort of exciting alphabet book to start off teeny-tiny readers, while older ones relish its rhythms!
Pehli Udaan
- Author Name:
Amit Kumar +1
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- Description: अमित कुमार हमारे लिए जंगल की सबसे आकर्षक और साहसिक कहानियाँ लेकर आते हैं। किसी पक्षी की पहली उड़ान से लेकर माँ भालू से मुठभेड़ देखने या युवा बाघ जोड़े को शिकार करते देखने की कहानियाँ। ये मनोरंजक कहानियाँ आपके रोंगटे खड़े कर देती हैं और आप किताब ख़त्म होने तक उसे छोड़ नहीं सकते। तो फिर आप उस भेड़िये की तरह कुछ और चाहते हैं जिसने मानव रक्त का स्वाद चखा है! जितनी विस्तृत कहानियाँ हैं उतनी ही विस्तृत प्रशांत सोनी के चित्र भी हैं। कलम और स्याही के चित्र खूबसूरती से बनाए गए हैं, जो सफेद पृष्ठभूमि पर काले रंग में उभरे हुए हैं।
Orbit- Media
- Author Name:
Rajnish Sharma
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- Description: DESCRIPTION AWAITED
Adventures of The Humongoose Family
- Author Name:
Zai Whitaker
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- Description: Gundu and Keeri Humongoose are normal mongooses. They are hasty, they chatter with chirps or clicks, they eat rats… But then they do something that Do-First-Think-Later animals do not. They take a decision! To move out of the jungle! And so begins their adventure into the unknown… filled with danger from two-legged creatures. Funny and quirky, the story is sprinkled with concerns about the environment, and also with little-known mongoose traits that author Zai Whitaker knows well – she’s had them as pets!
Nanna Bhaavanegala Prapancha (How I Feel-Kannada)
- Author Name:
Varsha Sheshan +2
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- Description: How do you feel when Nani comes to visit? How do you feel when you spoil a library book? Read this book and see how you feel today.Written by Varsha Seshan,Illustrated by Gitanjali Iyer and Kannada Translation by Uma Rao Kolar.This book won Library of Congress Literacy Award 2020(special response award).
Hanuman's Ramayan
- Author Name:
Devdutt Pattanaik
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- Description: Valmiki has barely put down his pen after completing his magnificent creation, the epic Ramayan, when he realises he has competition. The sage Narad tells him that there is a better Ramayan, written by Hanuman. Valmiki is devastated! As the story of Hanuman's Ramayan unfolds, humorously and gently, so does the idea that there is no one version of the story, but many. Here, the quirky illustrations based on the style of Mithila folk paintings tell their own story.
HICCOPOTAMUS
- Author Name:
Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: Late one night, as all the animals of Gulmohar Jungle were settling in for a quiet sleep under the silvery moon, a most enormous thing fell into the White Lily Pond Ö a hiccuping hippo called Hawasi. Join the Gulmohar jungle-wallahs for some madcap fun as they come together to help Hawasi with his hiccups and get him back home. Giggles and chortles guaranteed!
Kaash Ek Beta Mera Bhi Hota
- Author Name:
Geeta Dharmarajan +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?
Ilham's Birthday
- Author Name:
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh
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- Description: Ilham has a problem. Her Papa has given her a crisp fifty rupee note for her birthday, and she doesn’t know where to keep it absolutely safe. A pocket would be best, but her new frock doesn’t have one. So she runs to Salma Chachi the tailor to get a pocket stitched — but that leads to another problem. A charming little nugget of a story with the flavour of old Hyderabad captured warmly in the pictures!\
Palanquin Bearers
- Author Name:
Sarojini Naidu +1
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- Description: In the palanquin sits the graceful bride and four able men bear her with pride. In the glorious ways of Indian tradition, sing to the beat of this springy ride.
Pani Utra Teen Par
- Author Name:
Pramod Pathak +1
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- Description: प्रमोद पाठक का यह कविता संग्रह पढ़ने और सुनाने में मजेदार है। इसकी छंद सहज है. भाषा चीनी की तरह पारदर्शी होती है। इसे दो बार पढ़ें और आप इसे सीख लेंगे। पानी उतरा टीन पर फिर कूड़ा ज़मीन पर पत्ती और फूल पर खूब खूब झूल कर इन लोरी जैसी कविताओं को नीलेश गेहलोत ने खूबसूरती से चित्रित किया है।
MY NAME IS GULAB
- Author Name:
Sagar Kolwankar
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- Description: Gulab’s classmates call her ‘Stinky Gulab’, and it’s not because she smells. Her father is a manual scavenger, made to clean drains and gutters with his bare hands, even today! “Why do you do it?!” asks Gulab angrily. With determination and a little help from science, she takes the first bold step towards change. Addressing a deep-rooted social evil, the story nudges young minds to question the inequality and indignity that other children like themselves have to face. Strong illustrations evoke the feisty Gulab as she refuses to let school bullies, or society, chip at her spirit.
Janaalaykkarikil Poochandi
- Author Name:
Meghaa Gupta
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- Description: There is a BIG monster that only Montu can see, that shows up whenever he’s angry or sad, and makes him even more angry, even more sad. One day, when he hurts his leg and is stuck at home, he starts to draw. He draws the window, the tree outside and… the monster! But as he keeps drawing, the monster gets smaller and smaller. What’s happening? Pictures and text gently tell this story of a boy who learns to deal with his inner demons, illustrating how art can heal.
Chaand Par Khargosh - 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.
Champa Ka Ek Phool
- Author Name:
Jaikar +1
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- Description: What if a child decides to be a champa flower? Can anyone tell that it is him? From Indiaís greatest poet and storyteller comes this charming and perky poem that will surely lead to a fun round of hide-and-seek. A timeless treasure. Enjoy!
The Elephant In The Tree
- Author Name:
Mallika Nagarajan +1
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- Description: With its quirky characters, unusual use of language and skilful blending of fantasy and reality, this is a lovely story of Mahi who finds a seven-trunked elephant in the tree and journeys with him into a new world that will change her life forever. Mallika's delightfully illustrated story shows us how each one of us, like Mahi, is also capable of great little miracles. So come, be a miracle worker. And see how well you can do it!
Can You?
- Author Name:
Ashok Rajagopalan
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- Description: Can you taste with your toes? Or see with your ears? Or, at least, smell with your hair? No? Well, there are creatures around you that can! Take a peek into an intriguing world to discover the different ways in which animals do things that are ‘normal’. And look out for the funny bits in the pictures.
Bagh Bhi Padhte Hai
- Author Name:
Chandan Yadav +1
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- Description: कथाकार चन्दन यादव का यह पहला संग्रह है। उनकी भाषा का चुटीलापन, दोटूकपन कहानी को अतिरिक्त आभा देता है। उनकी कहानियों में पाठ का एक न एक तलघर महसूस होता रहता है। जहाँ कहानी के भीतर एक और कहानी नींव की तरह चलती रहती है। पाठक को आवाजाही का सुख मिलता है। ये कहानियाँ हिन्दी में कहानी का एक नया रास्ता बनाती हैं। इन कहानियों को चित्रकार अमृता ने बहुत अपनेपन से बनाया है। इन कहानियों के उन्होंने खासतौर पर किरदार रचे हैं। ऊँट कहानी का ऊँट है, बिल्ली कहानी की बिल्ली है। इस तरह कहानी के सच को दुनियावी सच से बड़ा दिखाया है। एक जगह ऊँट का बयान है कि करनवीर ने चिल्ला-चिल्लाकर आसमान सिर पर उठा लिया है। इस बयान को चित्रकार ने मुहावरे की गिरवी से छुड़ाया है। चित्र में ऊँट पर बैठे बच्चे के फैले हाथ सचमुच आसमान उठाए दिखते हैं।
MAGNOLIAS
- Author Name:
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.
