Flipped: Funny Stories/Scary Stories

Author: Various Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books About the book: The Flipped anthology series gives you two themes, two covers and two sides to open the book from… and you get to choose! Now you don’t need to keep a book away if you don’t like a story or a theme; you only need to flip […]

Tiger by the Tail | NBA Honour

NBA 2018 Honour Book | Young Readers Author:  Venita Coelho Publisher: Hachette India About the book: Tigers are being reported missing from wildlife reserves across India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Several hundred tigers have vanished. Something, or someone, is taking them. And if they are not stopped, this could mean the end of the species. It […]

Dead As A Dodo

Author: Venita Coelho Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd About the book: Mission Brief: Somebody is on an extinction operation, stealing all the last specimens of highly endangered species. This mysterious crook has somehow managed to discover the impossible – a living specimen of Raphus cucullatus, aka, the dodo. Yes, the same flightless bird […]

Timmi in Tangles | NBA Honour

NBA 2018 Honour Book | Young Readers Author: Shals Mahajan Illustrator: Shreya Sen Publisher: DuckBill Books  About the book: Timmi has to untangle a lot of things in life. Her mother wants her to go to school although she is a raja. Idliamma consumes all of her idlis, but everyone thinks Timmi ate them all. […]

Tiger Boy 🏆

Author: Mitali Perkins Publisher: Penguin Random House Charlesbridge About the book: Neel’s parents want him to win a scholarship, and go to the big city to study. But Neel doesn’t want to leave his beloved sundarbans, with its and then a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve! The evil Gupta wants to sell the […]

The Tree Lover

Author: Ruskin Bond Publisher: Puffin Books  About he book: Everything that you’ve always loved about Ruskin Bond is back. His mesmerizing descriptions of nature and his wonderful way with words—this is Ruskin Bond at his finest. Read on as Rusty tells the story of his grandfather’s relationship with the trees around him, who’s convinced that […]

I Will Save My Land 🏆

Author: Rinchin Illustrator: Sagar Kolwankar Publisher: Tulika Publishers  About the book: Mati pesters her grandmother and father for her own plot of land in the big field. When she does get it, she works hard. And then she hears that a company wants to make a coal mine in their village – the enormous black […]

Catch That Cat! | NBA Honour

NBA 2018 Honour Book | Picture Books Author: Tharini Vishwanath Illustrator: Nancy Raj Publisher: Tulika Publishers  About the book: When her friend’s cat, Kaapi, gets lost, Dip Dip goes off to look for it – on the road, Inside dustbins, behind houses, under bushes, everywhere. And when Kaapi finally climbs up a tree and can’t […]

Bhimrao Ambedkar: The Boy Who Asked Why

Author: Sowmya Rajendran Illustrator: Satwik Gade Publisher: Tulika Publishers  About the book: The life of an extraordinary man, whose questioning ‘why’s led him to fight untouchability, urge Dalits to protest against the inhumanity they suffered — and finally, to help draft the Indian Constitution that would ensure equality for all. Visualised with quirky imagination, this […]

Janice Goes to China Town

Author: Anuradha Sengupta  Illustrator: Kalyani Ganapathy Publisher: Pratham Books  About the book: Janice sets off to Kolkata’s Chinatown along with her Grandma. Join her as she discovers this heritage district.