Themed Book Lists 2/2

Mar 1, 20227 min read

Should Children Read Books about War?(part 1)

This post was originally written for The Bookwallis on Facebook, for the theme 'Voicing the silences in children's literature. Adults...

Jan 3, 20228 min read

FARTS, FANNY AND OTHER FORBIDDEN FAVOURITES ASSOCIATED WITH, WITHIN, WITHOUT….SO ON AND SO FORTH.

This post was written for the Bookwallis theme 'Freewheeling Freewheelers...finding “F” in Children’s Books': 2 December, 2020 There is...

Dec 2, 20216 min read

25 Meaningful Christmas Books

Maybe it’s because I have grown children, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up celebrating Christmas, but for some reason I cringe every...

Oct 5, 20214 min read

Snakes in Indian Children's Literature

(Sharing a post which first featured on the Sustainability Next blog on September 27, 2021) Ophidiophobia or fear of snakes, is one of...

Aug 28, 20215 min read

Reading the Olympics...reading across genres.

A version of this article appeared in the Hindu on July 30, 2021... https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-collection-of-books-to-teach-childre...

Jun 21, 20215 min read

Music is all around us

(This post was first published on The Bookwallis Facebook page.) Isn't it just? It is so essential to our lives, yet many of us do not...

Jun 20, 20211 min read

A Tribute to the Fathers on my Bookshelf this Father's Day

There aren’t many picture books in which we notice Father’s, Dad’s, Daddy’s, Appa’s, Abba’s, Papa’s, Dada’s, Pitaji’s or any other name...

Jun 18, 20218 min read

Books about Refugees and why our Children need to read them.

(I wrote this article in October 2020 on The Bookwallis Facebook page as part of a series...Voicing the Silent(ces) in Children's...

Jun 13, 20218 min read

Picture Books...a Conduit to Conversations about Death, Loss and Grief.

Yesterday, during an Insta Live session with Redwood Montessori School, I was asked about books dealing with death. I first wrote a post...