Dr Seuss’s work contains racism and xenophobia, but should we judge him by today’s standards?

Kolkata Launches Boat Library for children. This initiative will enable children to select from as many as 500 books in English as well as Bengali on the ‘Young Readers’ Boat Library.

While money is necessary for life – money-making is not the be-all and end-all of life, and that I think is one of the very important things that the pandemic has shown us. – Geeta Dharmarajan

Happy Children’s Day! Here’s a list of books with extraordinary child protagonists.

The #WomenWritersFest hosted an interesting session discussing children’s books and the works. The session highlighted a crucial boundary, raising the topic of female protagonists in children’s books. But really, what’s the way to introduce more strong female protagonists in children’s books? How should we do it without overloading children with adult perspective? Sunayana Roy moderated […]

“Boys don’t like reading books with girls as the main character – and that makes it harder for girls to be equal,” says Lauren Child, the new Children’s Laureate. Lauren was appointed Waterstones Children’s Laureate at a ceremony in Hull in the UK City of Culture for 2017. Lauren has written many child-animated series like […]