Kolkata Launches Boat Library For Children
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.
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.
As our world changed, the cultural significance of Harry Potter changed with it.
Here is a list of five books for children and young adults to introduce them to LGBTQIA+ literature and people, both children and adults.
Co-authors of A Very Naughty Dragon, 9-year-old Sarah Rose and Paro Anand reveal what fun it is to cook up stories and let your imagination fly.
Ecological awareness shouldn’t be confined to experts in the field. Storytelling can play a crucial role in this too– helping children learn about the natural world and its challenges.
The tale, only 244 words long, has sold over 50 million copies and is a children’s classic now. Almost every adult recalls reading it multiple times. The book is not just a tale of a hungry caterpillar, it is an attempt to gently build a cocoon of literacy around children before they begin kindergarten.
Over the last few decades, children’s publishing in India has moved away from formulaic narratives to a diverse set of genres. The monopoly of fantasy, adventure or mythological tales is fast disappearing to pave the way for more unconventional and intellectually stimulating stories. Indian authors have been substantial in introducing more ground-oriented and edgy material […]
This year, women’s history month follows what seems an unprecented upsurge of events that revealed the widespread abuse of women in both professional and private life. So it is not surprising to also see an increased interest in the representation of gender in literature – or rather, as a recently published big data study shows, a significant under-representation of women in […]
Bhakti Mathur is the self published author of the ‘Amma Tell Me’ series, a collection of mythological tales made simple for children