In response to the needs of children growing up in a multilingual society, these books provide access to two languages at a time – Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati or Bengali, paired with English. The text is deliberately simple to allow the two languages on the page to be as close as possible to each other, so one can be followed through the other.
When will it rain, Little Frog asks his mother. When black clouds appear in the sky, she replies. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday... every day Little Frog looks out for clouds. Bold strokes and bright colours highlight the drama of the sky.
On Monday Mani is a monkey, on Tuesday he's a crocodile, on Wednesday… A days-of-the-week-book that gives a real ride to the imagination!
A black cat with bright green eyes becomes a white cat with bright green eyes. Illustrated with bright colours that contrast dramatically with the black and white.
It can fly and do magic. It is a horse and also a pencil. What is it? Bright cutout illustrations give wing to imagination.
One day, Jojo the dog wakes up to find purple spots on his body. “Bowwow!” says Jojo. Where did they come from?
A little boy dreams of becoming a fisherman, a potter... a dancer! Imaginative doublespreads with pictures and words lead children into different worlds.
Big Hunter catches poor Deer in a net. Can Deer's friends help him escape? A well-loved fable about friendship and resourcefulness. With evocative art inspired by Bengal's patachitra paintings.
The smart lion thinks he can use the fox to bring him food every day. But the fox is smarter! A familiar fable with an environmental angle. The energetic illustrations draw from Gond art.
A merry donkey sang through the night in the cucumber field, but the cucumbers couldn't bear it. Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Odisha energise this droll new retelling.
When a herd of elephants creates trouble in the jungle, do the little rabbits run away in fear? No! Illustrations are based on the pithora folk style of central India, deriving from cave art.
Aana the elephant doesn't like his looks, but Chena the yam says he's beautiful. How? asks Aana. Endearing conversation and pictures that say, be yourself!
The pages in this unique book work in pairs, with the picture on the left suggesting stories that children can develop on their own using the verbal and visual clues on the right.
The Maldharis and the lions have coexisted peacefully for many years. Informative text and evocative photographs capture the many facets of life in the Gir forest of Gujarat.
Single words label dramatic pictures to string together several strands of stories in this unusual book of different stories for different readers.
Elephant, boat, duck... all upside down? The author plays with a creative concept, and a twist in the tale, to bring the lush ambience of rural Kerala to young children. 2010: Bal Sahitya Puraskar for Best Picture Book, Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature
Beboo, a baby sloth bear, lives in the jungle. But many other bears like him are caught by humans and made to dance on the streets for entertainment. Simple text, photographs and cartoons tell an important story.
Amma makes dosas but they keep disappearing. Children have the last laugh as they watch the pictures ‘move'.
The raja loves jalebis. He dreams of them. Then the dream becomes a nightmare! A delightfully crazy story with pictures that play with curls and colours.
Arresting black and white illustrations convey the author's own sense of wonder in this nearly wordless picture drama of two children who find themselves in a forest at night.
Based on a real friendship between a child and a tree, this gentle story is warmed by dramatic pictures in rich colours.
The illustrations carry the energy of earthy rangoli patterns into the story about a child's dicovery of dots, lines and flower designs.
Rani looks on the beach for a gift for her grandmother. Large photographs that look at little things and small illustrations that provide the bigger picture come together in this story.
Gagan and Chikki knock talkative Avneet aunty's mobile phone out of her hand. Ooops! A modern story with elementary text, interesting sounds and whacky pictures.
This little book of photographs, with just a line of text on each page, is a tribute to the universal and unifying spirit of cricket.
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