HONOR BOOK 2020, South Asia Book Award
BEST CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED BOOK/BRONZE, Comic-Con India Awards 2020
BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK COVER 2019/RUNNER-UP, Publishing Next Industry Awards
Come, listen to the sweet jungle orchestra, featuring the Woodpecker’s drums, the Hornbill’s trumpet and the Kingfisher’s blues
When curious little Gul hears some strange sounds coming from her radio, she follows the musical clues into . . . an Indian jungle! On her walk, she finds feathered friends who TWEET, TAPP and TALK. There are some who howl and hoot, and others who play the flute. With a KEE here and a KAW there, Gul discovers songs everywhere!
Brought to life by painterly illustrations, The Jungle Radio is a little story about the language of birds-their songs and sounds-with a loud and clear call to listen to the world around us.
Includes bestselling titles: How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
Grandma’s Bag of Stories
The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories
A hardback edition with delicate motifs and foiling
A perfect gift edition
From inspiring real-life encounters as a teacher to timeless stories woven from the memories of her own grandparents’ bedtime tales, Sudha Murty has delighted generations of readers with her words and wisdom. The Sudha Murty Children’s Treasury, in a dazzling hardback edition, is a compilation of the immensely adored short stories of India’s favourite storyteller. It’s just waiting for its rightful place on every bookshelf.
SHORTLISTED FOR GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD 2019
scream
so that one day
a hundred years from now
another sister will not have to
dry her tears wondering
where in history
she lost her voice
The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn’t always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America.
Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers to fight for what is right in their world.
Join Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, eccentric genius and scientist, on an incredible world tour as he confronts a daring doppelganger,undertakes an experiment to create pure gold, unravels the mystery of a scientist’s loss of memory and visits an unknown island to look for an amazing fruit, amongst other escapades,What is the message in the mysterious papyrus found in Cairo and why did scientists go missing in the deep jungle of Congo? Is there any truth about the sightings of the UFO and what happens when he takes an extraordinary animal to Koblenz in Germany?
Featuring the indomitable Professor Shonku and a bunch of madcap characters is presented here in a brilliant new translation that brings alive the magic and charm of Satyajit Ray’s imaginative world. Get ready for some hair-raising fun with the weird and wonderful Prof. Shonku, whose exploits have held readers spellbound for over five decades.
What Amar ‘Butterfingers’ Kishen really wants is to hold a cricket match in Colonel Nadkarni’s memory. But what the principal really wants is for the teachers of Green Park School to be more healthy and active. So, Amar playfully proposes a match between the teachers of the junior and senior schools. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of adventure, intrigue and madness!
Entertaining, uplifting and rib-tickling, this third novel, featuring, everyone’s beloved Butterfingers will delight readers both old and new.
Fun-and-disaster alert-Butterfingers is here again!
Amar Kishen is not called Butterfingers for nothing. Wherever he goes, disaster hurtles along-and this time’s no different. You’ve seen him set fire to his hair, head-butt a teacher, score an own goal, send his chicken-curry-soaked bat flying . . . Can things get any crazier?
With Amar, they can!
Now watch him tackle ghosts, pounce on his principal, knock a thief unconscious, stop time and get his life chased out of him by a nasty Doberman. Join Amar on his adventures as he whips up a tornado of trouble!
Crash! THUD! Oops!
Butterfingers returns . . . with a fun medley of thrills, spills, chills and giggles
Everyone’s favourite klutz, Amar Kishen, aka Butterfingers, has no problem getting into trouble . . . and that’s the problem!
Follow his mad escapades as he becomes a human cannonball, rides a runaway horse, takes up karate, acts as a Martian, oversees the great fall of china, tumbles into a river and tries his hand at fencing, with hilarious consequences, of course!
This second collection of stories about the eternally endearing Butterfingers promises to be as rib-tickling-ly funny as the first.
Bang! Thump! Crash! Who’s the wizard of the woeful, the foremost lord of the foul-up, the bumbling baron of blunders? Of course it’s Butterfingers!
Even when Amar Kishen-better known as Butterfingers-isn’t stumbling through misadventures, he sure has disaster tailing him every step of the way.
And now that he’s back, his ‘brilliant’ ideas land him in trouble (as usual), whether it’s messing around with an Egyptian mummy, playing cricket with an all-girls team, dropping a watch in a swimming pool or saving a rock star’s life!
Join the irrepressible Butterfingers in this exciting new instalment of side-splitting short stories.
Have you noticed how the onion has so many layers? And have you seen your mother’s eyes water when she cuts an onion? Here is a remarkable story to tell you why.
India’s favourite storyteller brings alive this timeless tale with her inimitable wit and simplicity. Dotted with charming illustrations, this gorgeous chapter book is the ideal introduction for beginners to the world of Sudha Murty.
A brand new edition of Ruskin Bond’s first novel for childrenLaurie is an English boy who moves to a hill town with his parents when his father is posted to India on work for two years.Laurie makes two new friends: Anil; the son of a local cloth merchant; and Kamal; who lost his parents during Partition and now sells buttons and shoelaces but dreams of going to college. Anil and Kamal introduce Laurie to an enchanted world of beetle races; ghosts; chaat and Holi; and he shares with them the secret pool he finds on the mountainside. At the pool the boys fish; build dams; take midnight dips; wrestle; and ride buffaloes. It is there that they plan their grand adventure: a trek to the Pindari Glacier; were no one from their town has gone before. On the slopes of the beautiful mountain they meet pumpkin-eating bears; and keep a close lookout for the Abominable Snow-woman who feeds children fruit; honey; rice and earthworms.This lost classic is a magical tale of adventure and friendship; told in Ruskin Bond’s inimitable style.
