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VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER 2020
The Art Gallery on Princess Street is a historical biography...
Ten years ago, the famous children’s author Rick Riordan...
The original story titled A Camel for Kelam...
Can you taste with your toes? Or see with your ears...
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant is an extremely...
A Saree for Ammi is a short, heartwarming story...
Shaljam is an instance of a predictive tale as it constructs...
Cut Piece Kumar, a bilingual e-book in English...
This is a story about the journey of a sprig...
Pichki is happy to push her way out of the ground...
Only Fools Go To School by Chatura Rao is based...
All the books reviewed below from Eklavya...
A child’s universe, where the bird and animal...
Chuchu Manthu’s Jar of Toffees, which first appeared...
Stories that connect a child to mother-nature...
As an editor of Indian books for children and young adults...
In the lockdown, I read the entire Keeper of the Lost Cities series...
Kashti is a fourteen page, wordless, picture book...
The book under review consists of seven stories...
Mera Khachchar Danda Hai is a collection of 40 poems...
Are all girls alike? Should all girls be alike...
Samina Mishra’s Hina in Purani Dilli takes the reader on...
Anya and her Baby Brother is a tiny book...
It seemed a strange idea to begin with...
As I was leafing through the pages of this book...
This middle-grade novel on zombies is actually...
Fly is short for Blow-fly–the name given...
Lying on the terrace under the starry night sky...
Pirate-fan Oop (Upendra) is irritated at having to look...
Hey Diddle Diddle is classic Anushka Ravishankar...
After taking over Instagram and Bookstagram...
Children are often seen as insulated from the world’s...
I must admit that as a reader of adult Marathi books...
The Piano is an unusual book...
Sanjeev Jaiswal’s Red Sun Ke Alien...
This book was like revisiting my childhood...
Shadows in the Snow is an intriguing book filled...
For most, school begins with crayons...
Here is a complete package of real life conflict...
‘Long, long ago there was a kingdom called...
‘History tells us what people do...
A doption is not an alien concept to Indians...
Sisters at New Dawn by Varsha Seshan...
A cardboard box appears on the beach...
Some of South Asian literature’s most lauded works...
Bengali Renaissance had contributed significantly...
Itihaas ki Atmayein is a collection of two stories from English...
What is a solitary, hastily drawn line capable...
Joseph Srinivas wakes up one day to find that things...
Perumal Murugan is one of the foremost of Tamil writers today...
As The Book Review went into press for its children’s...
If you are the kind of person who always finds...
Ruskin Bond is a gift that never stops giving...
Enid Blyton is easily one of the most popular...
My Daddy and the Well paints a restful landscape filled...
Which is the tallest tree in the world? Which...
Testimonies are powerful because they bring...
Environment is a concern central to all mankind especially...
The publication of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls...
My first thoughts while going through Uma Raghuraman’s...
Among the various mathematicians that India...
A few weeks back I watched the movie Wonder...
I had a maths teacher who would often ask...
How To is a self-declared book of ‘bad ideas...
This non-fiction by Roopa Pai discusses 25 ideas...
Who doesn’t love Peppa Pig? Peppa...
There are many books written on various disciplines...
Eklavya is a Bhopal based non-profit NGO...
As a physician specializing in pediatric and adolescent...
Inside a Dark Box by Ritu Vaishnav is an honest...
This book can be celebrated alongside the historic win...
A compendium of write-ups related to the earth...
Worries about the reading habit in children steadily...
On the eve of International Women’s Day...
A feather in the cap of Puffin Books adding...
Tharoorosaurus! as the name suggests...
Zakir Hussain can be considered one of India’s...
Travel accounts fascinate because they hold...
Rarely has a book lifted one’s spirits so completely...
One of the few happy consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic...
While choosing a book to review, the title of this one quickly...
Let’s start with the captivating cover...
These two ‘utterly, butterly delicious’ books form part of a series...
This has never happened to me before...
The Kathasaritsagara, which was compiled...
This is a comprehensive and discursive book...
It is a paradox that when the first stage...
After 34 long years since the last National Policy on Education...
Covid has hit India badly and the pain is likely...
We at The Book Review have always prided ourselves...
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