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Dance of the Flamingos – Non-Fiction

Dance of the Flamingos – Living like lotus flowers on water, the sight of pink flamingos is one of the most beautiful sights of the natural world. Why are they pink? Do they put on make-up? Do they have even a single bone in their long neck? Here is a book of photographs that answers …

Under the Invisibility Cloak – Fun fabric review

A brother and sister wonder if there is such a thing as an invisibility cloak. Their search for information leads them to learn about all sorts of fabrics from linen and cotton to high tech fabrics, even a real potential invisibility cloak. Sample Text from Under the Invisibility Cloak Arnav and Tanisha loved to …

Under My Bed – Overcoming fears

Something lurks under my bed, is it a tiger? Or something else? Find out in this short endearing picture book. Text from Under My Bed I wake up at night feeling thirsty. I want to get some water. I start looking for my slippers under the bed. Oh my God! There is a tiger under …

What Happened to the Shawl? Buddhist parable

What Happened to the Shawl? Buddhist parable – A monk approaches Buddha in need of a new shawl. Before he gives it to him Buddha delves deep into the situation of what happened to the old shawl. A story of reduce, reuse, recycle. Sample Text from What Happened to the Shawl? Buddhist parable One day, …

Have You Ever Heard A Whale Sing? Whale songs facts

In Have You Ever Heard A Whale Sing we hear lots of facts about whale songs. The underwater world is a noisy place. But amidst it all, melodious songs echo through the water. Read all about some of the strongest, largest and loudest singers under the sea—whales! Author: Divya Panicker, Illustrator: Deepti Sharma Sample Text …

घर – घर से दूर शरणार्थी Hindi Stories Home

घर – घर से दूर शरणार्थी – Home in hindi. Hasina lives a content and happy life with her family. But one day during their visit to a faraway village to see a doctor, armed men were on their way to bring chaos they were instructed to run west. Hasina along with her Amma followed …

The Grass Seeker – A Himalaya Shepherd

The Grass Seeker – As the weather turns warm, shepherd Room Singh takes his flock of goats and sheep and scales the Himalayas for fresh grass. With global warming a reality, this photo book traces the journey that a Gaddi shepherd has been making for the last 40 years, how many more will it be? …

घास की खोज में – The Grass Seeker Hindi

घास की खोज में – Hindi Stories The Grass Seeker: When summer reaches the Garsa Valley of Himachal Pradesh, Room Singh rounds up his flock of goats and sheep to go on a journey. Looking for Juicy blades of grass high up on the hill slopes for his flocks to graze on. This is an …

Whoopee…Hyperloop! Future technology coming soon

Whoopee…Hyperloop! Future technology coming soon – Vishnu loves to see new places. But he hates long journeys. Why can’t we have a faster mass transport system, he wonders? So when he reads about the hyperloop, he is blown away… whoopee! What’s this futuristic mass transport system? Vishnu and his friends read all about it in …

À Quoi Servent ces Objets? – What are These For? French

À quoi servent ces objets ? – What are These For? French The children heard a big bang on the kitchen and saw that there was a big mess. The cat had manage to knock over several tools and kitchen utensils from the shelf. They asked Ma, what are these for? Ma explained it to …

पोंगल की भगोड़ी पूँछ – Hindi Stories The Pig with the Runaway Tail

पोंगल की भगोड़ी पूँछ – Hindi Stories The Pig with the Runaway Tail – Pongal loves to sleep all day, so much that her own tail grew bored of it and ran away on its own. When she woke up, Pongal noticed her tail was gone, she decided to go out and look for her …

कौन गुज़रा यहाँ से? – Who Just Went By Hindi

कौन गुज़रा यहाँ से? – Hindi Stories Who Just Went By Will teach your children about animal foot prints in a beautifully drawn picturebook. From Pratham’s Storyweaver licensed under creative commons. This is a Level 2 Hindi book for children who can recognize day to day words and wanted to learn new ones with help. …

Who’s on Divya’s Map – Introduction to cartography

In Who’s on Divya’s Map Divya’s cousin Ravi is arriving from another town so she decides to draw him a map to make it easier for him to find her house. Who does she include on the map along the way and how does she construct it? This book includes a basic introduction to cartography …

Who Just Went By – Animal Tracks

Who Just Went By – Animal Tracks introduces young readers to the concept of animal footprints in an exciting way, each page having a set of footprints to guess who just went by. Author: Radha Rangarajan, Illustrator: Kalp Sanghvi Sample Pages from Who Just Went By – Animal Tracks <End of Sample pages> Read the …

Trop Grande ! Trop Petite ! – Too Big! Too Small! French

Trop Grande ! Trop Petite ! Shanu gets confused as her parents told her that she is too big to sleep on the baby’s cot or to climb on Dadu’s back, but she is too small to carry the baby and to go to school alone. Shanu wonders what is she the right size for? …

The Pig with the Runaway Tail – Adventure meets imagination

In the Pig with the Runaway Tail, Pongal the Pig sleeps all day and her tail decides to go on an adventure without her, she then goes on an adventure to find it. Each place she visits has it’s own set of perils. Join this fun book for improving reading with lots of sound effects …

नीलू और असाधारण मुद्रक – Neelu and the Phenomenal Printer Hindi Stories

नीलू और असाधारण मुद्रक – Neelu and the Phenomenal Printer in Hindi. Animals experience disability weather they have it since birth or due to accidents or worse animal cruelty. With the help of a 3d Printer Veterinaries and Animal Surgeons now can help make prosthetic limbs for injured animals. The book explains how to use …

خیلی بزرگ! خیلی کوچک! – Too Big! Too Small! Farsi

خیلی بزرگ! خیلی کوچک! – Too Big! Too Small! in Farsi Shanu is in the age where she is not small enough to be carried by her mother and she is not to big enough to carry the baby on her own. How could she be too big or too small at once? She wondered. …

Zu groß! Zu klein! – Too Big! Too Small! German

Zu groß! Zu klein! – Too Big! Too Small! in German, Shanu is neither big enough nor small enough to do things? Confused she wonders is their anything she can do in her size? This is a German Level 1 book brought to us by Pratham’s Storyweaver under creative commons. Author: Lavanya Karthik Illustrator: Lavanya …

Home – Poignant look at refugee status

Home is a poignant look at life for a little girl that ends up as a refugee. The little girl lives in a village with her family but one day armed men are on their way inbound and her and her mother are separated from her family and follow a river of people to a …