The Ghost of Gosain Bagan by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
Did you ever fail in your math exam? Or are you afraid of math? Well, Burun did! Read about what happens to Burun when he attends maths class after securing 13 marks in his previous exam. The class is given a peculiar problem…
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Children's Libraries in India: Creating the Readers of tomorrow!
Team Ponytale Books
Children's libraries in India are fast expanding to fill in the of a lack of public library system in the country. Unlike the localised neighbourhood libraries of yore, children's libraries in India are growing at a fast clip, going national and fulfilling the…
Children are the changemakers of the world.
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
During the summer of 2016, I was working with a few NGOs to help teach children. I had a really great time teaching these children, but the feedback I got from them was that they did not find their coursebooks interesting. This is an inherent problem in…
Was my Daddy a Little Boy ever?
We often hear children of all ages saying, ‘jab main chhota tha, when I was little . . .’, but have we wondered about our father as a ‘Little Boy’!
We invite you to partake Alexander Raskin in his A Word from the Author in the endearing modern classic,…
Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett
What do they know of Jim Corbett, who see the man Indians affectionately called ‘Carpet Sahib’, as a celebrity hunter?
Well, very little. For while there is no doubt that Jim Corbett is best known for his exploits in hunting and tracking down dangerous tigers and leopards, the fact is that…