All the books reviewed below from Eklavya have easy concepts and plots, with simple sentences, easy for children in primary classes to read and understand. Illustrations are good and relate with the story. They capture the ambience of the different environs that the stories are set in.
A child’s universe, where the bird and animal kingdom is as much a part of existence as the reassuring presence of Mummy-Papa.
Author Saumyak Ghoshal has beautifully evoked Piku’s mental landscape populated by sparrows and squirrels, cats and lizards, moths and mosquitos. The shadow-play of daylight and darkness impacts Piku, like any other child, at a deeper level.
Chuchu Manthu’s Jar of Toffees, which first appeared on Pratham Books’ digital platform ‘Story Weaver’, is a cute story with an intriguing title which will at once attract children and motivate them to pick up the book and read it.
Stories that connect a child to mother-nature are precious indeed.The Goolar Flower is one such story-book.
Renchu a little rag-picker girl is set off in search of a mythical ‘flower’–Goolar, by her elder sibling Pirku and her pal Saanish.
In the lockdown, I read the entire Keeper of the Lost Cities series, written by Shannon Messenger. There are eight books in total in the series. I was encouraged to read it by my dear friend
Shriya Kothari, and since we have similar tastes in books, I decided.