Back to school and a need a quick pick me up? Or maybe it is an extra boring summer vacay and you need the chills, thrills, and all the feels? The Body in the swimming Pool by Shabnam Minwalla, is just the book you need! This book is not as scary as some of Shabnam […]
Every once in a while, you need to return to that something which feels warm and familiar and gets your heart all buzzing! In movies, a good romcom does that for me. But with books, it has to be a good fantasy fiction where anything can happen and we are rooting for the underdog! The […]
As parents, how often do we tell our children to keep quiet? If there is anything we learn from the news around us today, it is to Speak Up, confidently. That is why Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words is a fascinating book, especially for YA readers. Award-winning author Payal Kapadia’s Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words is a […]
Books teach and then there is, I Won’t Wash My Hair by Aparna Kapur and Ogin Nayam that has been created almost in response to a global clarion call by kids so that they can shove said book in parents’ face and say, “See, she gets me. Why don’t you?”I Won’t Wash My Hair is […]
Reading Ramanujan was like reading the Priyanka Chopra of books — it did so many things and left me breathless! In addition to that, it weaved its magic on my family — it managed to make a 10-year-old, a 6-year-old, and an almost 40-year-old giggle, LOL, and fall in love with it. That is true […]
If you, like me, are of a certain age then you definitely would have had a pen pal. Mine was a girl in South Africa. The joy of coming back home from school to find a letter addressed to you with an exotic stamp was unparalleled. I guess Gen Z feels the same way when […]
We have just wrapped up the holy month of Ramadan, and there couldn’t have been a better book to read. Zooni’s Alarm Clock is the latest Hook Book to hit the shelves, and if you are a fan of Hook Books as I am, then you will be happy to know this is once again […]
If you have ever wondered about how to talk to your children about the India/Pakistan partition, then this book should be in your starter kit. Roop and the River Crossing is one of those finely nuanced books you come across that look gentle but will blow your mind away. Roop has a new gift from […]
Imagine being 8.5 years old and school has just closed for summer break. You have a long break ahead of you, and the world is literally your oyster! You have an exciting holiday planned at your grandparents’ house with your cousins — lots of staying up late, endless games of hide and seek, and of […]
It was filled with mythical monstrosities and notes on how to hunt them. Vetri was going to be the greatest hunter in the village, even better than his grandmother!