Rarely does a children’s book come around that makes you research terms, phenomena, and look up fascinating facts. Savi and the Memory Keeper led me multiple times down the rabbit hole, and I came away enriched from reading this book. Savi and the Memory Keeper is a book primarily about a girl coping with the loss of […]
Dance, Nani, Dance is magical. It will instantly transport you to your grandparents’ place, back to a time filled with tasty treats and happy memories – almost like a transportive, snug hug. 16 stories by some of India’s most loved children’s writers have the power to make you miss your grandparents and immediately wish you […]
As a parent, one of my pet peeves is the fact that our kids know about places and heritage monuments of countries far, far away, but have little to no knowledge of the city they live and grow up in. Over time, this leads them to think their own city, with its old monuments, is […]
What do we know about the Indus Civilisation from our history textbooks? The Great Bath, seals, the Dancing Girl statue, and the ingenious drainage system. I remember my history book had a smudged green and orange pic of the Great Bath, and that was my only visual cue of that period. Nikhil Gulati’s The People […]
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 […]
I love it when a book forces you to look at a familiar place through a new lens, and that’s what is so exciting about Mala Kumar’s The Missing Rocks of Hampi. With Hampi in the book title, your mind automatically thinks about the historical ruins, but this story, though set in Hampi, is a […]
How far would you go to find the one you love? Would you travel to the ends of the earth to find the secret of life? Finding Tree is the story of Nachiketaki and her close bond with a mangrove tree. She loves spending time with the birds on the trees, swinging from the branches, […]
If there is a book that will get my kids curious about nature and get them to spend time in the great outdoors, I’m all over it! Add to that a good book that dares to dream, and you have just got my complete attention. The Forestborns is that rare combo. Vardhini Amin’s debut novel […]
This is a beautiful book and was one of my favourite books of 2025. The story is about the friendship between two girls – Lalli, who is the daughter of migrant workers who come to Sakleshpur to find work during the coffee cherry picking season – and Champa, who is the daughter of plantation owners. […]
I have long believed squirrels are just rats with better PR. So, I have never been enamoured by a scurrying squirrel and have been guilty of egging on Clou to chase them away in his younger, more agile days. But this book made me look at squirrels differently, and I was quite amused. An Absence […]