The book helps us celebrate not just our own individuality but also helps us recognize the many types of diversity around us, which include cultural, functional, geographical, linguistic, family, religion and gender.
Category: Early Readers
World Book Capital encourages us to think of cities in the world being lined with bookshops and libraries. Of parks being full of people waiting to narrate stories. A place where people ask “What are you reading?” instead of “How are you?”. What a beautiful world this would be, right?
Every child needs a book that tells them to embrace their limited-edition features. Mamta Nainy has again won our hearts by celebrating individuality in “That Big-Voiced Girl”, a picture book for children to discover “How USHA UTHUP rocked her unusual voice”.
Sonia Mehta’s The Always Happy Book series published by Wonder House Books is creating a lot of buzz in our kbc community.
“Makara Saves January” is an interesting story about seasons. The Throne of the Seasons is occupied by one month for 30 days, but King December (Paush) was so proud of his ability to freeze the entire land, that he refused to leave the throne. Princess January (Magha) was worried, and together with all the other months, she approached the legendary sea monster – Makara. Will Makara be able to convince Paush to leave the throne?
This story is about Jo-Jo, the orangutan, who was separated from his mother at a young age and taken to the city where he hardly finds any greenery.
