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The village of Makkal has a problem. Their neighbour is a formidable giant whose thundering footsteps and booming voice has them quaking in their homes.
But one day, when a fierce storm threatens to take a boy away to sea, the villagers find an unexpected friend in the giant. He even helps them with their greatest woe – collecting salt from across the sea!
Inspired by a folktale from the Philippines, Daya Subramanian’s warm narrative and Tanaya Vyas’ serene illustrations weave an empathetic tale of friendship and wonder in Why the Sea is Salty.
6+ Years.
ISBN: 9789391790172
Pages: 36
Avg Reading Time: 1 hrs
Age: 0-11
Country of Origin: India
Sachchi Aur Romanchak Kahaniyan
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Naresh Saksena
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- Description: जगह बदलते ही चीज़ें किस तरह बदल जाती हैं। डिब्बे के भीतर, मुझये सिर्फ चार पाँच इंच दूर हवा गुनगुनी थी। बिस्तर था, कम्बल था और मैं बाहर सिर्फ पाज़ामा कुर्ता पहने रेल के दरवाज़े से लटका ठण्ड से सिहर रहा था। सिर्फ चार इंच की दूरी ने जीवन को मौत की और धकेल दिया था। और ये चार इंच पार करना असंभव था। इस संकलन में नामचीन कवि नरेश सक्सेना के जीवन की सच्ची और रोमांच से भरी कहानियाँ हैं। इनमें जिजीविषा, साहस और बूझ भी है।
You Won't Believe Me
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Jairaj Singh
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- Description: Here is a boy who likes his school a lot, but is sure that his school does not like him back. His classmates bully him. His teachers shout at him. But there is a pond full of fish — where he discovers that he’s not alone. READING LEVEL: 04, for older children who can read with confidence. Written by Jairaj Singh Illustrated by Bhargavi Rudraraju
Qutubminar Ka Ped
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Prabhat +1
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- Description: हिंदी के लोकप्रिय कवि और लेखक प्रभात के संग्रह में छह कहानियाँ हैं। आप बच्चों को सुनाने के लिए संग्रह की कहानियों को तुरंत याद कर सकते हैं। असामान्य रूप से सरल कथानक के साथ, बातचीत को चतुराई से आगे बढ़ाकर एक कहानी विकसित की जाती है। कविता सिंह काले के चित्र पुस्तक की दृश्य अपील को बढ़ाते हैं। चित्र वर्णन में समृद्ध हैं और पात्र अभिव्यंजक हैं। ये दोनों खूबियां आपका ध्यान खींच लेंगी.
Safed Bhalu
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Norbert Rosing +1
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- Description: An adorable tale about a most unlikely friendship, and a perfect prezzie for the little ones!
Megh Aur Tarang
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Sunaina Coelho +1
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- Description: An endearing poem of a child who refuses tempting invitations, instead staying with her mother at playtime, blissful in her company. Words woven with great tenderness by the greatest poet of all times, a gentle verse for all the little ones.
Jafta
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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.
How Heavy Is Air?
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Yasaswini Sampathkumar +1
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- Description: Balloons are colourful and light. Does the air inside them weigh anything at all, you might have wondered. Lakshmi has. So she and her classmates find out how heavy air is. Peek inside the covers to see what they learnt.
Muthu's Dreams
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Kamakshi Balasubramanian
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- Description: Muthu's Dreams was written by Kamakshi Balasubramanian and illustrated by Tapas Guha.Age group 4 to 8 years.
The Adventures of Wandering Wave
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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.
Hatimtai Ki Tilismi Kahaniyan
- Author Name:
Vaibhav Viplav
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Tum Bhi Aana
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Navin Sagar +1
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- Description: प्रशंसित कवि, नवीन सागर, शब्दों में जादू बुनते हैं। कविता पढ़ना अपने आप में एक अनुभव है। उनकी कविताएं इतनी जल्दी आपका हिस्सा बन जाती हैं कि आपको पता चलने से पहले ही आप खुद को इसके शब्दों का पाठ करते हुए पाते हैं। ये मौज-मस्ती, खेल और प्रेम की कविताएँ हैं। जब आप उनकी कविताएँ पढ़ने के बाद इसका अनुभव करेंगे तो आपके लिए बारिश पहले जैसी नहीं होगी। आप बच्चों के नाव बनाने, खेलने और बारिश में नाचने के उत्साह और ऊर्जा को महसूस कर सकते हैं। आपको ऐसा महसूस होता है कि आप खुद को जाने दें, इस पल में खुद को समर्पित कर दें और एक बार फिर से बारिश का अनुभव करने के लिए एक बच्चे की तरह बनें। नदी चढ़ी है आना तुम भी आना तुम भी आना आना तुम भी आना एलन शॉ के चित्र रंगों के साथ एक दिलचस्प नाटक बनाते हैं। चित्र सरल हैं लेकिन पानी के रंगों का उनका उपयोग मंत्रमुग्ध कर देने वाला है। उनकी प्रत्येक कलाकृति एक दृश्य प्रस्तुति है।
No Ticket, Will Travel
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Subhi Jiwani
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- Description: I can’t buy a ticket, but I need to get on this train… Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classmate he’s in love with. Aruna had lost a slipper, and it was her only pair. Balu wishes he could trade his jackhammer for a poetry book. Sadia and her son are sleeping beside their handmade dolls, wondering what the future holds. Anjanamma makes up a story to soothe the relentless sting of mosquitoes. Nagaraju sightlessly navigates the chaos of a train station and puts out a plea to the universe. Subuhi Jiwani traces six uncertain journeys from Andhra Pradesh to Kochi, where migrants were in search of work, survival, and belonging.
Nanammal and Kamalathal Travel by Sea
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Menaka Raman
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- Description: Nanammal and Kamalathal love to travel. In fact, they are on a vacation in Manali to celebrate Kamalathal’s birthday now. But will she get to fly a hot-air balloon? Explore different modes of air transport with the two friends.
My Upside Down World
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Ken Spillman
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- Description: Big brothers are mean. Big brothers spell trouble. And Big Brothers are not to be trusted, especially if they turn your world upside down. That�s what the protagonist discovers one morning upon waking up. The book�s parallel worlds with their upside-downness and downside-upness weave a fantastic, troubled, creased co-existence, both exasperating and reassuring. Nothing is what it seems like. Read it as a quirky story of squabbling siblings or of something more global, more sinister; each page leaves us peeling multiple layers, especially in a world turned upside down by the pandemic. Ken Spillman adroitly plays around with words and situations both believable and unbelievable, while Silvana Giraldo spins a splendidly broken-but-beautiful world to bring alive a somewhat Orwellian dystopia into this picture book.
Shorewalk
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Yuvan Aves
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- Description: Did you know that hermit crabs play a kind of musical chairs on the beach, swapping the shells on their backs? Or that an oyster cleans up about 200 litres of water a day? With his naturalist’s mind, photographer’s eye and stunning photos, Yuvan Aves zooms onto the sands or pans out to the ocean to give us little details as well as the larger picture of India’s coastline. Walking with Kadalamma and her fisherman grandfather, the seashore becomes a dynamic space, teeming with life. Fascinating snippets underline how beaches maintain a crucial land-sea balance. Quick alerts point to dangers of climate change and why we need to care for our coast.
Our Incredible Cow
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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
My Ammamma is NOW A CAT
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Sowmya Rajendran
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- Description: Ammamma sleeps so much, likes to watch birds, and even has whiskers… JUST LIKE A CAT! Follow her feline moves through pictures that are just as whimsical as this story about a grandmother who declares that it is now time for her to be a cat.
ADITI ADVENTURES - THE MARINE SAGE
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Suniti Namjoshi
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- Description: On a visit to Australia, there is much excitement with hi-tech gadgets and journeys underwater and on dragonback. Only the elephant is worried — will she finally find her name?
MANY COLOURS OF US!
- Author Name:
Lavanya Kapahi
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- Description: “What colour shall I be?” wonders the baby bird. And as her feathered friends hop forward one by one to claim their own colour as best, they pick out hues from across the country. Pink like Kutch flamingos, purple like fiery Naga chillies, red like the Satpura’s palash, black like Bhadra panthers… Vibrant palettes take us on a visual journey across India, reflecting that it’s the diversity that is delightful, the medley that is most magical.
Maharani The Cow
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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
