Ambika Anand; Hindi translation, Agya Gandotra. Line drawing, Subrato Basu.

Stories from the Panchatantra seem to be dominating recent publications for children. They are aimed at different age groups. There are four books in the Red and Colour series by Thomson Press, The Monkey and the Crocodile for the very young by Vikas and The Foolish Princes and the Panchatantra, published by Orient Longman…


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Sitaram Chaturvedi

In their own small way, publishers of children’s books have contributed to the International Year of the Child by publishing various kinds of books for children. Not to be outdone, and creditably, the Publications Division, a public sector organization, has made its own con­tribution in the form of these six books in Hindi…


Reviewed by: Urvashi Bhutalia
Alfred D’Souza

Since the child is the adult of tomor­row, we have to make necessary invest­ments in building up this human capital. If steel mills, dams, factories, roads, bridges, nuclear and electronic devices are necessary prerequisites for progress and development, then the human mat­erial which builds…


Reviewed by: D. Paul Chowdhry
Anita Desai

No one comprehends better then child­ren do…


Reviewed by: Meenakshi Mukherjee