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Veetukku Varuma Goondi?
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Muthu’s constant companion is a rooster called Goondi. But her grandfather tells her not to get too attached to Goondi, since he belongs to Selvi Paati. And the village head wants to buy him for his son’s wedding feast… Muthu can’t bear the thought! So, she makes her move and Thatha makes his, in this tender story about what a dear friend is worth. Pictures add richness and depth to this layered narrative set in an Irula fishing village in Tamil Nadu. Their varying tones and textures capture the setting, the people and the moments.
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Muthu’s constant companion is a rooster called Goondi. But her grandfather tells her not to get too attached to Goondi, since he belongs to Selvi Paati. And the village head wants to buy him for his son’s wedding feast… Muthu can’t bear the thought! So, she makes her move and Thatha makes his, in this tender story about what a dear friend is worth.
Pictures add richness and depth to this layered narrative set in an Irula fishing village in Tamil Nadu. Their varying tones and textures capture the setting, the people and the moments.
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Amazing Octi
- Author Name:
Viky Arya
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- Description: Octi the octopus lives in the deep sea. He wants to be your friend and play "Hide & Seek" with you. Are you ready? For this, you have to go deep down under the sea, and remember - Our Octi is amazing. He can change the colour and hide. To play with him, just count 1 to 10 and open the book. When you find him, speak aloud "I spy Octi"
Sa Re Ga Ma Pakshi
- Author Name:
Rishi Sahany
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- Description: सा रे ग म पक्षी एक चित्रकथा है। यह किताब वर्डलेस पिक्चर स्टोरी है। इसका पाठक कोई भी हो सकता है। एक तीन-चार के बच्चे से लेकर एक बुज़ुर्ग से बुज़ुर्ग व्यक्ति। किसी भी देश-भाषा का व्यक्ति। क्योंकि इस किताब में लेखक और पाठक के बीच का पुल भाषा नहीं बनाती है। यह पुल चित्रों का बनाया गया है। इस चित्रकथा में एक संगीतज्ञ हैं और एक उनकी स्टूडेंट है। संगीतज्ञ की मुद्राएँ इतनी अद्भुत हैं कि उन्हें कई कई बार देखा जा सकता है। किसी बार इस पर अचरज करने के लिए कि कैसे चित्रकार ने इतनी सुरीली रेखाएँ बनाई होंगी। जैसे, संगीत में डूबे गायक का शरीर खुद उसकी अपनी आवाज़ में झूम रहा है ठीक वैसी ही झूम चित्रकार को इस चित्र बनाने में मिली होगी। वरना ये रेखाएँ इतनी आज़ाद न होतीं। उस्ताद के सुर लगते हैं तो सुर लग गए हैं इस बात जैसे विस्मित हज़ारों परिन्दे उड़ानें भरने लगते हैं। शागिर्द खुद वैसे ही सुर साधने की कोशिश में है। वह एक तरफ सुर लगाने की कोशिश करती है और दूसरी तरफ उस्ताद की मुद्राओं का अभिनय करती है। लेकिन सुर नहीं लगते हैं। सुर के परिन्दे लौट लौट आते हैं। इस किताब के किसी पेज को देखकर हो सकता है कि पाठक को कबूतरों को आज़ाद करते हुए किसी व्यक्ति की याद आ जाए। इस किताब की मुद्राएँ सुरों को आज़ाद करने की मुद्राओं की तरह हैं। इस किताब में ऐसी कितनी ही कल्पनाएँ करने और चित्रों को समझने की गलियाँ हैं। पाठक अपनी मनचाही गली में उतर सकता है। हर बार जब वह एक नई गली में जा रहा होगा यह किताब एक नई किताब में बदल रही होगी। और हर बार पाठक को इस तलाश का सुख मिलेगा कि कि समझ-समझ कर समझ बनती है। महान गायक कुमार गंधर्व को जानने वाले इस किताब को पलटते ही कुमार जी की याद में डूब जाएँगे। यह किताब चित्रकार ऋषि साहनी की ही नहीं हमारी दुनिया की सबसे सुन्दर किताबों में से एक है। बेशक। Age group 0-6 years
THE PLEASANT RAKSHASA
- Author Name:
Sowmya Rajendran
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- Description: Karimuga is a rakshasa, a pleasant rakshasa. He is a beautiful rakshasa too. But that makes all other rakshasas jealous of him. Karimuga can't bear to see them unhappy... Sowmya Rajendran inverts our ideas about beauty, happiness and rakshasas with humour. Niveditha's quirky pictures add to it with little and big rakshasas romping through the pages in jaunty colours.
Asamo, is that you?
- Author Name:
Canato Jimo +1
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- Description: The lights are out, and Yumum is looking for Asamo. But what if she isn’t the only one wandering about in the dark? Written by Canato Jimo and Ogin Nayam Illustrated by Canato Jimo and Ogin Nayam.The development of this book has been supported by PARAG: THE INITIATIVE OF TATA TRUST.
Hanuman’s Adventures in the Nether World
- Author Name:
Madhavi S Mahadevan +1
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- Description: The magician, Mayil Ravana, has cast a stupendous spell! He’s kidnapped Rama and Lakshmana. Now, no one can ever find their way to the Lotus Kingdom to rescue the princes. But, wait! There goes Hanuman, the son of the swishing wind and a trusted friend of the princes, gliding across the bluest sky in search of the nether world. Get ready for a splashing, big adventure. “The writings are simple and interesting. Illustrations are beautiful and modernistic.” — The New Indian Express “great read for young children, to bring history and mythology alive.” — Parenting
Brahma Ki Titli
- Author Name:
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!
Raathriyile Aakaasham
- Author Name:
Samina Mishra
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- Description: It’s late at night. Tipu is fast asleep when his two black puppies, Layla and Jugnoo, bound into his room. Down comes his star-filled quilt – and it becomes a cosmic playground for the three of them. Anything is possible, even flying to the moon! With illustrations that reflect the blending of reality and fantasy, this is a story about the sheer joy of imagination, and the wonder of play.
Daddoo Nikli Dekhne Duniya
- Author Name:
Prabhjot Kaur +1
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- Description: Daddoo, the little frog, on her day out Ö A lively book that celebrates friendship and introduces children to the world of animals, colours and sizes. The story with its view of life in a small pond and the larger forest can be used in the classroom.
Cat In The Dark
- Author Name:
Margaret Mahy +1
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- Description: 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!
Chintu Haralo Mohadesh
- 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.
Sheela's Two Homes
- Author Name:
Nina Sabnani
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- Description: Sheela is any happy child growing up in Sukkur, Sind – playing with friends, sewing dresses for her dolls... She lives with her uncle whom she calls Baba, father, just across the road from her real parents. The turbulent times in the run up to Independence don’t touch her. Till suddenly, there’s Partition. The gentle unfolding softens realities of a childhood quite far removed from today’s readers. Springing from yet another animation film by Nina Sabnani, it is her mother’s own story, and she continues that connection with the choice of visuals – fragments of cloth, touches of embroidery, that tell of a life across two countries, with two fathers, in two homes.
Our Incredible Cow
- Author Name:
Mahashweta Devi
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- Description: Nyadosh the cow has a fierce gleam in her eyes and a furious appetite. She chomps on textbooks, feasts on frocks and devours anything blue in colour. But once she gets on the ilish fish trail, there's just no stopping her… This comical tale of a common cow with uncommon taste is one to relish. Nyadosh's extraordinary appetite unfolds through vivid photo collages, offset by light black-and-white doodles. Along with the almost unbelievable true-life story from one of India’s best known writers, they give readers a hilariously different depiction of what we usually think of as a mild-mannered animal! Originally in Bengali
Gaay Maharani
- Author Name:
Christy Shoba Sudhir
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- Description: Lined up on a street are noisy motorbikes, honking cars, crowded buses, impatient autos... In their midst sits a queenly Maharani! At the heart of this funny little vignette is a cool-as-a-cucumber cow, an all too familiar character of an Indian streetscape. Nancy Raj’s full-of-life pictures bustle with detail and drama, capturing the bovine and the boisterous as everyone tries to unseat her highness. 2018: The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Award – Best Picture Book 2018: Honor Book, South Asia Book Award
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!
Kissu Haathi
- Author Name:
Manica Musil
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- Description: Through her wonderful illustrations and skills of story-telling, Manica Musil lives in the hearts of her readers. She does not use brushes and colours in her artworks. Thread, pins, pieces of Through her wonderful illustrations and storytelling skills, Manica Musil lives in the hearts of her readers. She does not use brushes and colours in her artworks. Thread, pins, and fabric pieces make up her illustrations. You might think that threads, pins, and pieces of fabric were invented for use in Musil's illustrations. We have put these to use elsewhere, too. Her books unfold like friendships in school, taking a new form each day, just as a river opens up along its shores. Pages of her books become trees once again. The thread blossoms into silkworm flowers. fabric...make her illustrations. Then you think that threads, pins, and pieces of fabric were invented for use in Musil's illustrations. We have put these to use elsewhere, too. Her books unfold like friendships in school, which take a new form each day. Just like a river opens up around the shores. Pages of her books become trees once again. The thread blossoms in to silkcotton flowers. age group- 0-6 years and Age group 6-8 years
Jafta
- Author Name:
Hugh Lewin +1
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- Description: Meet Jafta, a little boy growing up in an African village, who describes some of his everyday moods and feelings by comparing his actions to those of various animals. Filled with vibrant illustrations and clever similes, the book will transport young readers to the beautiful environs of African wilderness. Early readers will find this delightful story being read aloud to them.
Sculpted Stones - Mysteries of Mamallapuram
- Author Name:
Ashwin Prabhu
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- Description: On Tamil Nadu’s coast lies a small town that centuries ago must have been filled with the sounds of hammering and chiselling on stone – Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. From a mammoth relief panel to cave temples and monoliths, it showcases sculptural art of astounding skill and a variety of styles rare to find in one location. The book takes us through this ‘open-air museum’ for a one-on-one ‘looking’ experience through its rich archive of 65 vivid photographs. The magnified visual details and narrative cues also throw up a sea of stories – and some riddles to be unravelled!
WHEN ALI BECAME BAJRANGBALI
- Author Name:
Devashish Makhija
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- Description: Mr Moochvaala and his mechanical monsters are going to cut down Bargad chawl, and its residents are worried. They are in danger of losing their homes – their nooks and crannies, shelters and perches in the big banyan tree. It is left to Ali the monkey to find a way out. He swings, jumps and leaps into action, and comes up with a monkey trick that gives a new twist to the phrase ‘playing god' in this hilarious and heartwarming story with wonderfully animated pictures!
Raat ka Aasmaan
- Author Name:
Samina Mishra
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- Description: It’s late at night. Tipu is fast asleep when his two black puppies, Layla and Jugnoo, bound into his room. Down comes his star-filled quilt – and it becomes a cosmic playground for the three of them. Anything is possible, even flying to the moon! With illustrations that reflect the blending of reality and fantasy, this is a story about the sheer joy of imagination, and the wonder of play.
Peacocks And Pakodas
- Author Name:
Mala Kumar +1
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- Description: From listening to a melodious Kajari to watching tiny waterfalls and from the lovely scent of moist soil to the smell of Amma's pakodas, Meenu loves every bit of the monsoon
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