Accomplished storytellers, Shaguna Gahilote and Prarthana Gahilote, take the reader through the wild jungles and deserts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, and even Sindh and Multan in 16 folk tales.
Category: Tween Books
Its diversity makes India home to some extremely cool facts, which have been brilliantly explained by Sonia Mehta in her book 101 Awesome Facts about India.
Tavs is reluctant to go to Ladakh as she thinks it will be boring. But when she meets Mr. Tiger Nose, his wife, daughter-Tashi who is 5 years old and her classmates in Ladakh, everything changes.
As opposed to a book of folktales from a particular region, Geeta Ramanujam has shared a plethora of experiences from a wide array of cultures in one book.
It’s not only about the mountains and rivers of India, it’s also about how diverse India is in its landforms, how those landforms have been formed, and a lot of interesting stories around them.
That year in Manikoil takes you back to the year 1944, when Madras (Chennai of today) was evacuated fearing a Japanese invasion. Back then, the entry of Japan into World War II had completely changed the position of India which then came at the frontline of a possible attack.
The story is set in a small village called Manikoil, where Raji, her mother and her sisters go to stay.
