If your kids have finished reading the first volume of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, you can now hand them the second volume to read. The battle to end patriarchy is not over, and so it makes perfect sense to have more books with profiles of more wonderful women for the young ones to learn about.
Like A Girl is a collection of stories of 51 women. Many of these women are not unknown to us, several of them are celebrities. The women featured in this book range from 19th century heroes like Rani Laxmibai to contemporary trailblazers such as Dipa Karmikar. Along the way you read about the extraordinary Amrita Shergill, Leila Seth and Soni Sori.
Judge this book by its cover. A hand-drawn elephant, a monkey, a tortoise, a bird, a butterfly, and a somewhat rakish, thin, balding man with sunglasses border a background of dappled sunlit green. Welcome to the world of forests, its denizens and India’s eminent ecologist, Rauf Ali.
Sheshagiri Rao’s maiden book is a memoir—about a teacher who altered his perspective of a subject and turned his life around. Rao, an education specialist, shows us that any subject can be made interesting to the students if the teacher wills it so.
Many people know Sachin as a famous cricketer, some even believe that he is the best player of the game. But not many people know about his very gruelling and challenging past, which I think we must know to appreciate him. He is a very hard-working person and I think we can all change by reading his autobiography.
You can be different, yet lead a meaningful life and live up to your potential. You can be happy and successful too. Be yourself and do your best is what each story from the book seems to say. Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different has some amazing stories that warm the cockles of your heart! Here’s a small peek into the book…