*Wordless Picture Book* I believe that as pet parents, we tend to anthropomorphise our pets and believe they are saying and loving a lot more than they probably are. So, a book or even a movie featuring a dog will immediately move us to tears, and we will begin to see our fur baby in […]
The perfect baby book is many different things — a board book, a cutesy story, bright and colourful, and small enough to hold. But the books you will end up treasuring are those you will read night after night, on loop. This is definitely one of those books. A B C D, A Nature Alphabet […]
Sometimes all you need is a story with a warm, fuzzy, happy ending to make everything right as rain at the end of a long day. Also, not all children’s picture books are white, bright, and colourful. Some show what happens when it’s Lights Out! We are currently riding the Vibha Batra wave, loving everything […]
Don’t Intrude On My Mood is a darling book about a little person with big feelings. The person in the book is a cat, but it could very well be the 7-going-on-70 person in your home, as it is in mine. In this book, little cat is angry, no livid, because his friend Alex didn’t […]
I love books that have so many things going on at once. Of course, there is the story of the main protagonist, but in a picture book, there is so much scope for all these other tiny things happening around the main story, too! Akela, written by Richa Jha, illustrated by Ruchi Shah, and published […]
What makes for a good read-aloud book? There’s a story, beautiful pictures, the way it is written so kids follow along, good conversation points, humour, etc etc. Ask anyone who reads a book out loud to kids, and you will get a list of must-haves, that may be vastly different. For me, a good read-aloud […]
Women’s Day is around the corner, and the posts celebrating the “greater sex, naari-shakti, devi power and diva glow” have started pouring in. If you are like me and have reached the end of your tether, it is time to read Out in the Moonlight, written by Perumal Murugan and illustrated by Ashok Rajagopalan. Out […]
As a child who grew up in the Gulf, visiting my Paati’s home in Peruvemba, Palakkad wasn’t always a pleasant experience for me. Little did I know, those years would become core childhood memories. Paati’s home would be fun during the day. Playing with cousins, eating mangoes felled by the strong breeze, sucking on ripe […]
How do we help our children to talk about how they feel when things around them change? We adults love to rant and gripe about it. But how do children measure change? Against what they know and understand, is one way. Afo and I is one of those sublime, quietly convincing children’s books that should […]
Everyone has a favourite book that they clung to through their growing up years, The Little Prince was that book for me. I have a copy that has passed the well-thumbed-through stage and is well on to the tattered stage, but I still read it every once in a while and take back something new […]