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On Okinawa island, a boy named Ray determines to use a magical gift from a mermaid to protect the island’s nature and people no matter what he has to give.
ISBN: 9788123736587
Pages: 56
Avg Reading Time: 2 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Girls To The Rescue
- Author Name:
Sowmya Rajendran +1
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- Description: Move over, petrified princesses in towers. Stand back, sword bucklers. These audacious girls are their own saviours! What do you think happens when Snow White, Cinderella and gang meet an author who wonders: "Now what would any red-blooded girl with brains do in such a situation?" Six leading ladies decide not to stick to the script, and take us instead through some riveting retellings that sizzle with humour as they toss around notions of beauty, perfection and strength. Armed with real-world skills, they rewrite their happily-ever-afters. Rescue themselves. And save the fairytale!
Where Is Amma
- Author Name:
Nandini Nayar
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- Description: "Are you there, Amma?" "Are you inside, Amma?" Kiran looks everywhere for his mother – in the kitchen, in the balcony, and even in the unlikeliest of places! Charming watercolours make this book one warm and irresistible hide-and-seek story.
Jab Dhoop Bhi Ho Aur Barish Bhi
- Author Name:
Gulzar +1
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- Description: सुनते आए हैं कि जब धूप में बारिश हो तो गीदड़ का ब्याह होता है। कभी किसी से ना पूछा ना सोचा कि धूप में होती बारिश में ऐसा क्या है कि वह गीदड़ को शादी का सही समय लगता हैॽ इस पर गुलज़ार ने सोचा और लिखा। प्रिया कुरियन ने किताब के चित्र बनाए हैं। धूप में होती बारिश के रंग किताब के हर पन्ने पर हैं। गीदड़ के ब्याह में कितने लोग आए हैंॽ कौन-कौन आया हैॽ जानना हो तो चित्र को देर तक देखते रहना पड़ेगा! Age group 0-6 years
Once upon a Coin
- Author Name:
Mala Kumar
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- Description: Banko discovers the beauty of coins when he sees his grandmother’s collection. Join Banko to find out the images that can be spotted on Indian coins.
Machher Jhol
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Richa Jha
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- Description: When Gopu's father (Baba) falls sick, the visually impaired Gopu knows he would have to step out alone. He negotiates the crowds, the markets and the traffic of the city of Calcutta, all by himself, to reach his grandma's house to get her to cook Baba's favourite fish curry. Does he succeed in bringing it home to him? In this book, Richa Jha writes as much about the courage of Gopu as she does about the sounds and smells of a bustling metropolis. Sumanta Dey brings alive the city of Calcutta between the covers of this book and makes the readers feel they are walking alongside Gopu.
Kuch Aata Na Jata
- Author Name:
Rajesh Joshi +1
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- Description: कौवा कितना काला है? जैसे कि रोशनी उल्टी हो गई हो, मशहूर कवि राजेश जोशी जवाब देते हैं। उनके जैसा स्थापित कवि अवलोकन की बारीकियों को व्यक्त करने के लिए नई भाषा का निर्माण कर सकता है। यह एक अनोखा संग्रह है, जो बच्चों को बहुत पसंद आएगा। वे पूरे दिन आपके साथ या अकेले इन्हें गाना चाहेंगे। युवा चित्रकार शिवम चौधरी के चित्र ताज़ा हैं। वे दिखाते हैं कि चित्रण में रंगों की अपनी आवाज़ होती है, आप ध्यान से सुनना चाहेंगे।
Naa Polaanni Rakshinchukonta
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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.
How To Weigh An Elephant
- Author Name:
Geeta Dharmarajan +1
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- Description: 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+
In My Garden
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Poornima Chander
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- Description: It’s time to water the plants. The garden is full of colour and, if you look closely, many intricate patterns. A book about the simple joys of the outdoors world.
Gajapati Kulapati
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Ashok Rajagopalan
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- Description: Small noses catch small colds. Big noses catch big colds. Gajapati Kulapati the elephant has a big nose and catches a great, big, mighty cold! And what happens when he sneezes – Aaaaachoooo….? With repetitive sounds and words that roll rhythmically through the pages, this bestselling series about the adorable elephant puts the zing back into storytelling and reading aloud. Bright, zestful pictures and dynamic visual text echo the lilt, making these big, happy books of fun.
Hallo
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Bageshree S
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- Description: Hello, says the sun to the bud. Hello, says the rain, the bees, the butterflies, the birds, and Thambi. "Hello," the flower replies, showing off its lovely petals. This beginner reader is part of the Thumb Thumb Books series, created around the common thumbprint and featuring Thumb Thumb Thangi and Thumb Thumb Thambi. Short sentences, bold type, and vibrant visuals make entry into reading easy and exciting. At the end is a page for children to make their own thumbprint drawings – and the line, ‘I can read this book,’ affirms the young reader’s confident place in the world of books.
Chandrunilo Kundelu - Bilingual
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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.
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
Chintuvin Oru Vankara Nashtapettu
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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.
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.
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.
I Am Not a Cat
- Author Name:
Paro Anand
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- Description: Is that Aaliya or is she a lion? Join Bir, Aaliya and their friends as they play a new game.
Malainagar Ki Rangeen Deevarein
- Author Name:
Shyamala Shanmugasundaram
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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.
Chik-chik Girl
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Komilla Raote +1
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- Description: Mona loves to complain. Sometimes about the tasty khichdi her Amma cooks and sometimes about Dada’s long legs. Meet the chik-chik girl and her family.
Sihi Sihi Mundappa
- Author Name:
Malavika Shetty
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- Description: Raw, green, sour and crunchy. Or ripe, golden, plump and soft. Summer time is mango time, a time children wait for – blazing sun, sticky mango juice ringing their mouths and dripping down their fingers. The sweet, simple story and luscious pictures evoke delicious flavours of hot days, warm friendships and the smell of mango in the air.
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