Samira’s Awful Lunch – Sometimes viewing what others have makes one more appreciative of our own things. Another great Creative Commons book from Pratham and Storyweaver.
This is a Level 2 book from Pratham’s Storyweaver aimed to children who can recognize familiar words and can read new words with help. The book has minimum amount of words and lots of pictures that illustrate what is being said on the story.
By: Bharati Jagannathan, Preeti Krishnamurthy
Sample Page from Samira’s Awful Lunch:
Samira made a face when she opened her tiffin box and thought,
‘Who wants to eat parathas and brinjal curry?
Not I.’ Last week Amma had given her noodles with capsicum and carrots.
“The noodles are squiggly and they look like worms, ”
she said when she went back home.
<End of Sample Page from Samira’s Awful Lunch>
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Awesome book. Liked the narrarion. It touched rhe right nerve of my picky eater
ella writes:
nice story
Yasira writes:
I like when Samira did not eat her lunch
brianna writes:
it was good
Jacinta writes:
it was cool I would not eat some of those stuff to.
pj writes:
it was awesome. i am six years old.