Author: Anjana Basu
Publisher: Talking Cub

“The ever-expanding body of children’s literature featuring tigers gets another excellent addition in Grandfather’s Tiger Tales. The three stories in this anthology bring together familiar and unfamiliar narratives – of a tiger that came to a cricket match, of the fearsome tiger god Dakshin Ray of the Sunderbans, and of a tiger and a man sharing a room one stormy night – are bound to appeal to young wildlife enthusiasts. What sets them apart is the old-world charm and gentle cadence of Anjana Basu’s writing that will make readers think about tigers with empathy, without weighing them down with the burden of conservation.”

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Vedant Agarwal
Grade 8, Mumbai

Dhwani Nagendra Suri
Grade 10, Bengaluru

Vihaan Srivastava
Grade 8, Hyderabad