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Reaching for the Moon: Lessons from the Chandrayaan Missions | Illustrated Picturebook on India’s Space Journey | Inspiring science and innovation through ISRO’s Chandrayaan Missions | Age 8+

Reaching for the Moon: Lessons from the Chandrayaan Missions | Illustrated Picturebook on India’s Space Journey | Inspiring science and innovation through ISRO’s Chandrayaan Missions | Age 8+

Menaka Raman
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Can you make snow in Tamil Nadu? Valarmathi thinks so!

When the district collector of Theenkulam, Tamil Nadu announces a district-wide science fair to celebrate the success of Chandrayaan 3, twelve-year-old Valarmathi dreams big. Her plan? Create snow to cool down her sweltering hometown!

With her best friend Siva, Valarmathi sets out to make actual snow and she’s convinced that her idea is bold, innovative and ribbon worthy.
But just like the early Chandrayaan missions, her experiments don’t always go as planned. In fact, they fail. Spectacularly.

Join Valar on an adventure of chasing BIG dreams, learning from epic flops, and discovering that failure might just be the coolest part of success!

Imprint: India Puffin

Published: Sep/2025

ISBN: 9780143472018

Length : 44 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Reaching for the Moon: Lessons from the Chandrayaan Missions | Illustrated Picturebook on India’s Space Journey | Inspiring science and innovation through ISRO’s Chandrayaan Missions | Age 8+

Menaka Raman

Can you make snow in Tamil Nadu? Valarmathi thinks so!

When the district collector of Theenkulam, Tamil Nadu announces a district-wide science fair to celebrate the success of Chandrayaan 3, twelve-year-old Valarmathi dreams big. Her plan? Create snow to cool down her sweltering hometown!

With her best friend Siva, Valarmathi sets out to make actual snow and she’s convinced that her idea is bold, innovative and ribbon worthy.
But just like the early Chandrayaan missions, her experiments don’t always go as planned. In fact, they fail. Spectacularly.

Join Valar on an adventure of chasing BIG dreams, learning from epic flops, and discovering that failure might just be the coolest part of success!

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Menaka Raman

As a child Menaka Raman used to write far-fetched stories about birthday parties, water parks and floating cake disasters. As an adult, she continues to write stories-some are still far-fetched while others are not. She is the author of several picture books, short stories, and a young adult novel. When she is not killing plants and walking the family dog Woody, she is eating Nutella straight from the jar and baking very bad cakes.

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