This book is a common sense guide to help children find their own path. It is filled with anecdotes and examples. It guides you gently without being preachy.
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Written by Sumita Bose, an educator, Young Detective is a collection of one dozen interesting stories, Young Detective is a book with a difference. Each story ends with a question that the reader can solve.
A heartwarming story set in a school backdrop, this book talks about inclusion without actually talking about it. It is about a boy named Raghav, who is dyslexic (but not diagnosed). Since Raghav couldn’t read or write like his classmates, he gets bullied.
One day, in an unexpected turn of events, Sharadha gets lost and ends up in the city of Mahodayapuram where she finds a young girl of her age named Ruthie. While Sharadha felt excited to get to know the city life walking in the streets of Mahodayapuram, a crisis baffles her. The Chola Empire wages war all of a sudden.
The book has 16 stories about animal behaviour like how mice use their techniques to get rid of cats, Kavya the elephant who wants to be slim like the deer and the lizard which helps a class of students in their examination.
Heroes The Colour of Dust is tale of six sparrows, of fearless self sacrifice and derring-do. As the introduction says, the struggle for independence involved not just brown people, but brown birds as well.
