This is a sponsored post! You lay in your grandmother’s arms listening to the same story a hundredth time and yet feel the same excitement, joy of wanting to know what happens next. A memory most of us cherish – a bedtime story or a story on a sunny afternoon, when your mom is trying to distract…
Children’s Picture Books: The Red Raincoat by Kiran Kasturia and Zainab Tambawalla The Red Raincoat published by Pratham Books, written by Kiran Kasturia and illustrated by Zainab Tambawalla is a simple, sweet and heart warming story about Manu who has a new red raincoat. Manu wants to wear the raincoat everyday but the rains just don’t seem to come. Everyday he checks...
Children Inspire Us in Unexpected Ways I used to be a physicist. During my first postdoc I had the ‘baby itch’. I really wanted to have a baby. And not just have a baby but be a hands on mom. I finished up my postdoc when I was 4 months pregnant. Obviously I did not look...
Children’s Books from India – A Picture-Book Publisher’s View Chitra Sounder, the author of the Farmer Falgu series, did a series of interviews on Children’s Books from India with publishers, illustrators, authors and parents. She has been kind enough to let us share these interviews with us at IMC. We are reproducing those interviews as is, from her blog....
Interesting, Well Produced Books Kindle Children’s Interest Says Saraswathy, Mango Books Saraswathy is the editor at Mango Books and is extremely passionate about reading and books in general. We spoke to her about the Apoorva series, what are her thoughts on the Children’s Books industry in India as well as what can we expect in the future from Mango Books and...
Books on Monsoon Magic for Children! Whichever part of India you reside in, ….chances are that it is either raining or going to rain or just about stopped raining! Though this year’s monsoon’s has had a slow start, its wet…wet wet…all the way now! It is time to let your little ones to flaunt those colourful...