At Least I’m Okay tells a poignant story about an attitude that is too frequent among us related to climate change. In this important picture book about climate change, the main character, Una the mountain goat, ignores all the changes around her as her friends leave one by one, thinking, “At least I’m Okay”. The …

Why Don’t Birds Comb Their Hair? Early nature projects about birds This is a cute book featuring a number of different bird types. This book can be a fun starting point for more research about birds. Author: Suchi Govindarajan, Illustrator: Anjora Noronha     Birds featured in this book: – Himalayan Monal – Eurasian Spoonbill …

Chunu and Munu Read tells the story of two girls and how they come to love reading books, they spend their time inside the library and begin to love books by discovering wonderful pictures, amazing stories, and knowledge they can learn through reading. Chunu and Munu Read is brought to us by Pratham’s Storyweaver and …

Why do Sunbirds Eat All Day is a fun biology lesson in a book, all about sunbirds. What they look like, how they eat, and why. The book has some additional non-fiction facts at the end for extra resources. Written by Anusha Shankar, Illustrated by Harjyot Khalsa See more Science Below      

Champ loves singing, she sings everywhere, well almost everywhere, she doesn’t yet sing in front of anyone. When her friend suggests she sing at the annual day a new problem arises, how to get over stage fright. Champa practices hard and on the day seeing her friend in the audience she forgets her fears and …

In Sailing Ships and Sinking Spoons – lessons in buoyancy, Tenzin and Tashi, two young Tibetan monks, and Genla, the beloved storyteller of the monastery, wonder why a small steel spoon sinks in water but a huge ship floats. Their science teacher Miss Sonam helps them experiment with an apple, a spoon and a tub-full …

Four friends have a secret meeting place, but someone keeps trying to get in. Is it Ma like the person says, or is it a scary monster? The group has 3 forms of security to protect their secret meeting place. This book provides a nice simple explanation of security and why it’s important in a …

How to be an Otter is a tale of what otters do, as told by an elder otter to the otter pups. This book is brought to us by Pratham Books, a book in every child’s hands. See more books by Pratham in our Pratham-Storyweaver category. Text from How to be an Otter Learn to …

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, …

The Very Shocking Report Card is a story about a little boy Pattu whose report card is less than desirable, what will happen when his Papa and Mummy see the report card? This beautifully illustrated story has some wonderful examples of adjectives and similes which makes it a great story for English studies, and is …