Publisher: Daffodil Lane BooksAuthor: Vaishali ShroffIllustrator: Urvashi Dubey One day when Leela returns home from school, a leopard opens the door instead of her mum. “This is my house,” it says and that starts off this tale about how humans encroach upon the home of wild animals and what can be done to address this problem. Click here to buy
Naturalist, ecological activist, educator and writer, Yuvan Aves is a young man with many talents. In Class IX, he left formal schooling to pursue a journey in self-education that led to a soul-stirring love affair with the natural world. In a conversation with Meghaa Gupta, he offers insights to life in nature, keeping environmentalism alive in young minds and how…
Publisher: KalpavrikshAuthor: Sandeep VirmaniIllustrator: Niloufer Wadia Ajiri, a chinkara fawn, gets separated from its mother and is raised by Shivam, the young son of a naturalist, and Mitti, a pastoralist girl in the Banni grasslands of Kachchh. She learns to trust humans as she develops an unusual friendship with Shivam. Will she be reunited with her mother? How does she…
Publisher: Talking CubAuthor: Ketki PanditIllustrator: Sneha Uplekar The green snake basks in the morning sun, the langurs laze high on tree branches in the afternoons, and the owls hoot away at night… and when it is tiger o’clock, guess what happens! Travel round the clock in a forest in the Western Ghats of India and see what unfolds, in this…
Publisher: Karadi TalesAuthor: Varsha Seshan A heartwarming water-conservation story featuring three resourceful young girls, Antara, Tarini and Saira, who come up with the best idea of all to save their Holi! Click here to buy
By JoAnne Saldanha Ophidiophobia or fear of snakes, is one of the most commonly reported phobias in the world. Feared and despised, snakes have usually been maligned in popular culture. Unfortunately, children’s literature has largely fed into this fear. The pet of evil Lord Voldemort ‘he who must not be named’… the symbol of Slytherin – a house that never…