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यह किताब पढ़ी तो लगा कि सुशील शुक्ल पेड़ों की भाषा जानते हैं। पेड़ की भाषा जानने वाले मिट्टी, हवा, रंग और पानी भी भाषा भी जानते हैं। कि पेड़ की भाषा मिट्टी, हवा, रंग और पानी की भाषा से मिलकर ही तो बनती होगी। इस तरह बनी भाषा मिट्टी सी कोमल, पानी सी तरल और हवा सी ताज़ी होगी। सात पत्तो वाला पेड़ की भाषा ऐसी ही है। अगर किसी को बताना हो कि हमने पेड़ में फूल और खुश्बू के बनने को देखा है तो ऐसी ही भाषा में बताया जा सकेगा।
तापोशी घोषाल के बनाए सप्तपर्णी के फूल पर भँवरे मँडरा रहे हैं। इनके साथ ज़रा ठहरें तो इनकी गुनगुन भी सुनाई देने लगेगी।
Age group 9-12 years
ISBN: 9788197025808
Pages: 12
Avg Reading Time: 0 hrs
Age: 11-18
Country of Origin: India
MAYIL WILL NOT BE QUIET
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Niveditha Subramaniam +1
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- Description: Introducing Mayil Ganeshan, a lively 12-year-old who finally has the opportunity to express herself fully in her diary. This is a significant step towards achieving her goal of becoming a writer, as she hopes to make up for all the unfinished stories and the aimless novel she had written before. In her diary, Mayil shares a spontaneous, sensitive, honest, intimate, and often humorous account of her life and thoughts as a perceptive young girl going through the ups and downs of adolescence. This coming-of-age book is a must-read, with enough humor, heart, and wisdom to entertain and inspire readers of all ages. Age 10+
Look Ma, No hands!
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Vikram Agnihotri
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- Description: Meet Vikram Agnihotri, India’s first double-arm amputee to get a car driving licence and then become a racing driver. Losing both his upper limbs after a terrible accident when he was only seven, the rest of his life has been all about moving on, buoyed by his parents, with spirit and cheer. This book is that story. Told by Vikram himself in the style of a graphic narrative, it is a book of inspiration for any reader, about a man who is no less a superhero than his own childhood idol, Superman!
A Song in Space: Kesarbai Kerkar
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Neha singh +1
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- Description: Little Kesar loved to sing. She never imagined that when she grew up her voice would travel to distant galaxies. Read this book to find out about legendary singer Kesarbai Kerkar’s fascinating musical journey.Written by Neha Singh and Illustrated by Shubhshree Mathur.
Rumniya
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Rukmini Banerji
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- Description: Little Rumniya, all of a year and a half, goes to a wedding with her Nani and Nana. She is attired in a lovely lehenga and bangles and looks exactly like any Indian kid on a festival/family event. The venue is done up with flower strings and colourful buntings. Waiters are going around with trays of drinks, guests are greeting each other and folks are joyfully tucking into the wedding feast. Soon Nani and Nana meet their friends and start chatting and little Rumniya, well, gets lost in the crowd. Instead of crying (like how yours truly had!) she decides to do something. She figures that it would be much easier from her height to check out folks' footwear rather than trying to scan faces. So thats what she does. She goes around checking people's sandals and slippers till she comes to a familiar looking pair! Needless to say this was a hit in these parts and with not just the kids!
Tracing Roots Stories About Trees
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Mallika Ravikumar +1
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- Description: For centuries, people have sought to make sense of the world around them through stories, and this holds true for trees as well. Why does the coconut have eyes? How did a cobbler prove his wisdom with a tiny seed? How did a jackfruit tree help Birbal solve a robbery? Thatha takes Samar, Maya, Shyam, and Nisha all over India and beyond through 12 stories that span several cultures. Mallika Ravikumar’s retelling of myths, legends, and folktales from different traditions will delight readers young and old, while Swati Kharbanda’s awe-inspiring illustrations showcase the staggering beauty of the trees that surround us. 9+ years
Where Is Goggayya?
- Author Name:
Kollegala Sharma
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- Description: Deascription of the book is awaited
The Mysteries of Migration
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: Some birds, animals and insects travel thousands of miles away from home, and then travel back again a few months later. Why do they take this journey? How do they know where to go? How do they find their way back home? “If there is one word that can be used about the book, The Mysteries of Migration, authored by Geeta Dharmarajan, it has to be ‘excellent’. — Hindustan Times “The Mysteries of Migration is a fun and exciting book to read. This book is telling us about amazing things what birds, fishes, mammals, insects and reptiles do, it is about migration.” — The Curious Owl
Daddy's Mo
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Madhuri Purandare
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- Description: What does Anu like the most about her dad? His Mo! Do you know what a Mo is? Actually, Anu likes everyone with a Mo. So much so that when she sees a Mo, she gets funny ideas!
Mendhak Bola
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Rakesh Ranjan +1
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- Description: मेंढक बोला अभी अभी पढ़ना सीख रहे या पढ़ना सीखने जाने वाले बच्चों के लिए बहुत उपयोगी किताब हो सकती है। इसमें हर बार टीचर एक सवाल पूछते हैं और मेंढक हर बार उनका जवाब देता है। मसलन, टीचर बोले नाम बताओ मेंढक बोला टर टर टर दो तीन पंक्तियों में ही बच्चे को इस कविता का स्ट्रक्चर समझ में आ जाता है। आप उनसे सवाल पूछेंगे और वे उत्तर दे देंगे। एक बहुत सरल सी दिखने वाली कविता है यह। बच्चों का भाषा की तरफ आने के लिए ज़रूरी सेंस ऑफ एचीवमेंट महसूस करने वाली। ये वे कविताएँ हैं जो बच्चे अनेकानेक बार पढ़ना चाहते हैं। बार बार पढ़ने का सुख उठाने के लिए। इसके चित्र भी इस कविता को समझने और इस कविता का परिवेश समझने में मददगार साबित होते हैं। इस कविता की पृष्ठभूमि भी बताते हैं। और इस कविता का अन्त भी बताते हैं। एक मायने में वे इस पूरी कविता में शरारत भर देते हैं। तो कविता का एक स्तर तो यह है। एक इस कविता का भीतरी संसार है। जो पाठक को फिलहाल न खुले मगर उसके जेहन में कहीं न कहीं इसकी छाया बनी रहेगी। वह यह कि टीचर इस कविता में मेंढक को समझ नहीं पा रहे हैं। मेंढक हर बार जवाब दे रहा है। उसकी अपनी टर टर भाषा में। वह जो कहेगा टर टर ही करेगा। शिक्षक इस बात से बेखबर हैं। यह स्कूलों में आम है। कुछ बच्चे हमेशा शिक्षक से यह उन्हें समझने की ख्वाहिश लिए ही स्कूल से विदा हो जाते हैं। मेंढक इन सब बच्चों का प्रतिनिधि बनकर इस कविता में आता है। राजीव आइप के चित्र इस कविता को विस्तार देते हैं। गवाही देते हैं। इस कविता की कचोट को कुछ हलका करते हैं। इस कविता को क्लासरूम में या घर पर कई कई पंक्तियों को जोड़कर विस्तारित किया जा सकता है। मेंढक की जगह घोड़ा बोला हिन हिन हिन भी किया जा सकता है। Age group 0-6 years and Age group 6-8 years
Ek Bada Achcha Dost
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Babak Saberi +1
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- Description: Like Kabuliwala's fragrant dry fruits, this story has come from Iran with Babak Saberi's story and Mehrdad Zayeri's illustrations. Every moment is a moment of friendship. A tiny bird becomes a friend of a huge elephant. A young bird tells her mother bird- Ammi, see, the size of our shadow is the same...same to same. What will any mother in this world say to this? This is a story of friendship between a crow and an elephant. Mehrdad Zayeri shared that she has faced rehabilitation too often in her life. Her mother used to worry about how she would adjust in a new place, in a new country. This story is like a memory of my frequent displacement and rehabilitation, she says. Age group- 0-6 years
Jiske Pass Chali Gai Meri Zameen
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Naresh Saxena +1
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- Description: अगली फसल आते ही सब चुकता कर दूँगा अब तो मेरी झूठी ये गुज़ारिश भी चली गई... उसी के पास अब मेरी बारिश भी चली गई.. जिसके पास चली गई मेरी ज़मीन Age group 6-8 years
Sair Par Ghumakkad Lahar
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: What would you do if your friend went missing? Wandering Wave has lost her good friend, Beulah. Wave travels to far away lands to get her back and meets all kinds of different creatures. Would you like to join Wave on this frumble-drumbling adventure to reunite her with Beulah? Written by award-winning author Geeta Dharmarajan and illustrated by Sreeja Basu, this tale is a captivating addition to KATHAís Ocean Literacy Series.
THE KING AND THE KIANG
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Mariam Karim Ahlawat
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- Description: Kunzang is a strange child of nature, with hair as wild and red as the rhododendrons she lives among. People say that one look from her crimson eyes can make wishes come true. She rides untroubled on her graceful kiang through Sikkim's Yumthang valley. But then, along comes the powerful king, Bhu-pen, who sees the kiang and wants it... A lyrical story with vibrant pictures that capture the unrestrained beauty of nature in the wild.
My Story, My voice – Sita and Helen
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Shailee
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- Description: Sita and Helen. Two of mythology’s best-known ‘heroines’, famed for the epic wars fought over them in Lanka and Troy. There are endless accounts of how beautiful they were, what happened to them, and how their valiant husbands rescued them. But what do we really know of the women themselves? What did they think? How did they feel? Listen now to their own stories, in their own voices… Shailee imaginatively constructs their hidden sides, filling in the gaps where there was silence before. Rich, detailed illustrations augment text and theme to re-present these stories with an alternative perspective for young people of today.
J is for Jalebi
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Chitwan Mittal
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- Description: kh is for khichdi. And kh is also for khana! J is for Jalebi is a clever and fun way to introduce children to the Hindi alphabet and to South Asian food vocabulary. There has never been a more exciting Hindi alphabet book. Your child will not be able to put it down! Stunning illustrations will make you feel the jalebis are in your own hands. This book is a must have for those who have foodie babies! Simply put, just yummy!This board book is perfect for toddlers and pre-schoolers (2-4 year olds). This is a Board Book and not a Hard Bound Book.
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.
8563 One Story Four Endings
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Soumitra Ranade +2
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- Description: Raghunath boards a train from Mumbai to Vajraghat and shares his compartment with a stranger. Raghunath’s curiosity is piqued when the mysterious stranger starts speaking in numbers. This original story by Soumitra Ranade and Rudradutt Ranade features three alternative endings by Sonali Arun Bhatia, Archana Rao-D’Cruz, and Mira Desai. Illustrated stylishly in pen-and-ink by Ambika Sambasivan, 8563 is a delightful mystery for all readers.
Dungi Dance
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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.
Amma's Toolkit
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Nandini Nayar +1
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- Description: When Mini and Taras home is flooded because of a broken pipe in the bathroom, Amma comes to the rescue. What is in Ammas toolkit.
Secret Wild Vet Kalyani
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Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: Secret Wild Vet Kalyani is a book inspired by N Kalyani, Tamil Nadu’s first woman veterinarian who graduated from Madras Veterinary College in 1952, challenging gender norms within the profession. Through a cheerful poem set in the Nilgiri hills, the author and Katha’s Founder President Geeta Dharmarajan imagines her Irular protagonist as a kind of superwoman who helps rescue animals, birds and reptiles in danger. Filled with everything from guns to ropes and jungle antics, this adventure story truly comes alive with the help of lively illustrations by designer Boski Jain. According to the book, the DNA analysis (2018) of a skeleton from the Indus Valley Civilisation found in Rakhigarhi showed greater affinity with the Irula people than any other ethnic group in India. “A study by Yelmen et al (2019) found that the Irula were the closest likely proxy for the indigenous “AASI”, or Ancient Ancestral South Indian, one of the presumed founders and autochthonous original populations,” informs the book.
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