Tag Archives: Children

If you are the kind of person who always finds herself in hot water without a clue as to how it happened, this is the book for you.

The story of Kabir, the Flyaway Boy, delves deeply into the heart of a child who cannot squeeze himself into the conventional mould. It explores the situation of an imaginative youngster who simply cannot live up.

Ruskin Bond is a gift that never stops giving. In his latest offering, a memoir titled A Song of India:  The Year I Went Away, Bond shares snippets of his life at age sixteen. Sixteen is an age of irrepressible excitement in anyone’s life. We are not quite children and not quite adult.

Enid Blyton is easily one of the most popular authors in English for children. Most known for her series such as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Malory Towers, The Faraway Tree, her books have enlivened the childhood of many. Though she wrote in the early- and mid-1900s.

My Daddy and the Well paints a restful landscape filled with the simple pleasures of childhood—a world that any reader can recognize and delight in. With his lips stained pink with the juice of kokum fruit, the child protagonist takes us through his various adventures while visiting…

Which is the tallest tree in the world? Which is the biggest garden in the world? Were peaches called Persian apples? These are just a few of the questions that can be answered by this book. From herbs and spices to forests, from gardens in deserts to gardens on cliffs.

Testimonies are powerful because they bring together immediacy of experiences, urgency of issues and force of convictions into the moment of enunciation.  This tract seeks to mobilize that power to address one of the most pressing issues of our time, climate change.

Environment is a concern central to all mankind especially in recent times. Nature is the precondition for human life and survival. Given the central position it acquires in our lives, the book, Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India by Meghaa Gupta.

The publication of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls in 2016 caused quite a stir in the children’s book industry and popularized the vogue of collective biographies written for children, a trend initiated by the  Rad Women series. Many jumped on the bandwagon and soon.

My first thoughts while going through Uma Raghuraman’s cookbook was that I wish someone had written this when I was in school, or even while my own children were in school. My lunch box always, inevitably, held paranthas with some pickle sitting snug in the middle.

Among the various mathematicians that India has given birth to, the name of Srinivasa Ramanujan has to be in the forefront. In this attractive picture book, the author Priya Narayanan has tried to tackle the very complex thought process of a genius in terms that a child can relate to.

A few weeks back I watched the movie Wonder and thought this book is the exact gift for a kid like Augie who is not only deeply interested but also understands astronomy. This book holds up its own place in the collection of books because it’s filled with pretty amazingly wonderful facts.

I had a maths teacher who would often ask in a rhetorical fashion, when exasperated with the class, do you people want to be dunkeys in life? There would be a small section of the back benchers who would shout back ‘dunkeys sir’. The teacher knowing the offenders.

How To is a self-declared book of ‘bad ideas…How To is a self-declared book of ‘bad ideas’, and quite a good one at that!  A perfect companion to the author’s previous volume (which answers absurd questions with ‘serious’ scientific answers), How To discusses, in its own words ‘absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems’.

This non-fiction by Roopa Pai discusses 25 ideas/innovations/discoveries/inventions that have shaped the modern medicinal science; old texts, perception on the causes of diseases, the birth of anatomy, history of vaccination, emergence of new branches such as microbiology.

Who doesn’t love Peppa Pig? Peppa with her little brother George, Mama and Papa, living on a hill, happy and rotund, playing in the mud and full of life lessons for children, neatly delivered in a few pages or reels of slick story-telling?

Well, I can tell you, legions of little fans around the world love Peppa to distraction.

There are many books written on various disciplines of yoga for adults, but very few books on yoga for kids. Om the Yoga Dog  is a good initiative by  Ira Trivedi to write such a book. Ira has wisely chosen dog and other animal characters to depict the yoga postures.

Eklavya is a Bhopal based non-profit NGO set up in 1982 which has worked with the Madhya Pradesh government to develop educational programmes for teaching school children science (inspired by the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program), social science and primary education.

As a physician specializing in pediatric and adolescent endocrinology, i.e., hormonal disorders of children and adolescents, I am frequently appalled at the level of ignorance so many ‘educated’ adults have about their bodies, which not surprisingly affects the way.

Gender-based violence has taken many forms. One of the worst depredations has been reserved for the transgender community. Awareness about varying gender identities have increased, but mistreatment has not necessarily reduced. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.

There are hardly any women fiction writers in Hindi other than Nasera Sharma who knows Farsi and draws from it a refined sensibility required by a writer to tell tales of human aspirations and suffering. Having written more than twelve novels, nine collections of short stories.