A Butterfly Smile – A Colourful Butterfly Biology Picturebook for young zoologist. This story is about the life cycle of butterflies. starting butterflies laying their eggs turning into cocoons and emerging into colourful butterflies. Author: Mathangi Subramanian Illustrator: Lavanya Naidu Follow along the story where Kavya a shy girl who just moved to Bengaluru to …

Philautus the tree frog known to his friends as Thavalai was born on the Big tree in the middle of a shola forest, a dark, deep and wet forest, dripping with dew, dank with mildew. His family had lived on a big tree for as long as anyone could remember and did not come down. …

In the Tino, the Rhear, and the Biger the animals all decide to switch skins, resulting in fun names to sound out. This humorous short story about Animal Skins is level 2 from Pratham, suitable for emerging readers. By: Ashok Rajagopalan   Sample Text from The Tino, the Rhear, and the Biger – Animal Skins …

In Fire! Fire! – A story about fire safety. little girl Ana, after moving towns, goes to work with her father, there are lots of speakers and shower-heads in the building they visit, Ana wonders what they are. They soon find out when a fire alarm sounds. A story about what happens in a fire, …

Avani and her Amma are making food, a pea escapes their notice and rolls out the door, the story unfolds as the pea finds a way to grow into a pea plant. Try planting a seed for yourself in the activity at the end of the book. Author: Shruthi Rao, Illustrator: Debasmita Dasgupta     …

A new girl comes to class, initially, she is shunned, but one child makes friends and encourages her to celebrate her differences. The story culminates in a class project where all children present items celebrating differences from all their backgrounds. The new girl shines. This is rated level 3 by Pratham, stories that are suitable …

A Spot the Difference puzzle, Manners in the Park features 5 pairs of pictures each with 6 differences children can puzzle out. Sample Pages from Manners in the Park 1a. The children in this park are playing happily. 1b. The children in this park are not playing happily. Can you spot why? <End of puzzle …

Mission Cycle is a tale of learning to ride a bicycle and at the same time an experience of Curfew through a child’s eyes. Author: Rohini Mohan, Illustrator: Jayesh Sivan Sample Text from Mission Cycle Is it morning already? Why didn’t Ammi or Abbu wake me up? Did they forget I have school? Did they …

The Man that Thought He Was Smarter Than His Wife – A Folktale from Norway – A hilarious adventure of what a man does when he takes over his wife’s chores for the day, combined with a Viking ship activity at the end, this book makes for a great story and activity time. A beautiful …

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 …