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A delightful book that presents the sense of wonder that lies in the everyday natural world. The evocative illustrations show a bright-eyed boy encountering and investigating many creatures in his little world around his home. The comfort of the child in his surroundings would appeal to any child who loves the outdoors, irrespective of the context they are growing up in. The book can also encourage children to go out and explore.
This warm book invites readers to a diverse and inclusive children’s library, consciously including children with both physical and intellectual disabilities. We get a glimpse into the lives of children as well as their parents and caregivers. Right from the striking cover to accurate depiction of children, the illustrator does a fabulous job to lift the book out of the ordinary.
This is a lovely book that presents a specific and difficult context through the everyday joy that children have the ability to find. The illustrations evoke Majuli in every page – the houses on stilts, weaving activities, food, cultivation- richly bringing to life, the world that is lost to the rising flood waters. The reveal at the end is moving. The creators of this book are Assamese and bring in a familiarity with the landscape captured in the book.
Set in North-East India, this story explores big and small losses, goodbyes and change through a multi-layered narrative with many questions. Why does someone have to leave the village? What makes a city different? The vivid artwork is consistently from a child’s perspective, capturing the feeling of being small in a vast world. Layered with everyday joy and human-nature connections, this is a book for many ages!
Perhaps the first children’s book in India that chronicles a significant transgender public figure, Grace Banu. The engaging storyline, along with plentiful illustrations shape an interesting narrative, introducing children to a theme they may not have encountered often. Written by a queer-trans author, this is a significant representation in Indian CL. A great book to help children think about gender and caste realities.
We Hope: Children on Climate Change
This collection features children’s comments on climate change, along with simply and evocatively communicated information on specific issues. Reflecting children’s voices from diverse environments, it covers a range of landscape- related challenges. Spectacular illustrations by different illustrators mirror this diversity of voices and contexts. The book makes space for children’s voices and brings home the idea that climate change affects everyone.
In the Land Where Beetles Rule
Illustrated books of poetry for children are rare in India. The pages of this bold and pathbreaking book have sparse but unsparing text that are illustrated by stunning and disturbing illustrations of a stark future where the world as we know it has collapsed and beetles rule the land. A book for older readers, each page opens a conversation on recognizable markers of today’s world set in an unrecognizable future.
This picture book explores the journey of a young woman scientist finding her place in the world. The secrets of plants intrigue her as much as she continues to struggle with loneliness, often baffled in an unkind world. The illustrations capture the sense of her discovery that mustard plants that grew up with unrelated plants tended to help each other as much as they tell the story of her self-discovery. A book for all children who love asking questions about the world and themselves.
