Pushki’s First Train Adventure is a treat for the 90s kid as it takes the reader down the memory lane to those days of exciting summer vacations and joyful train rides when vacations simply meant making the annual pilgrimage to the house of one’s maternal grandparents.
Don’t Let the Kitten Drive the Car! | Akanksha Sharma | Book Review
Reading Don’t Let the Kitten Drive the Car! was an invigorating experience for me. It is a book that tells us the story of a young girl and her cat. It is a modest story with a minimalistic plot, pleasing characters and a simple language. While reading this book, expect a lot of insights into the world of visually impaired people and into the world of cats.
Avatar of Protector | Chetan B. Thakkar | Book Review
Avatar of Protector is a modern-day mythological fiction that promises a good amount of action and adventure. I love how sci-fi elements like space travel, high tech vimanas, supercomputers of the future and other such things also find their way into the story. Children will definitely enjoy it as it has just the right dose of action and adventure
The Gory Story of Genghis Khan | Nayanika Mahtani | Book Review
The Gory Story of Genghis Khan is a children’s book for 9 years and above. It is beautifully illustrated with black and white sketches of Genghis Khan and his subjects’ life under his rule. It also talks about the prevailing culture, the traditions, the value system, and lives of daily people.
Moongphali | Neha Singh & Mukesh Chhabra | Book Review
STORIES: 4/5 ILLUSTRATIONS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Having recently read Ambushed by Nayanika Mahtani, I decided that I will start reading more books in children’s fiction category. Soon to follow… [Continue Reading]
Ambushed | Nayanika Mahtani | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 It is a well-known fact that Tigers are an endangered species now and steps have to be taken to ensure that our coming… [Continue Reading]
The Road to the Bazaar | Ruskin Bond | Book Review
THEME: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “The Road to the Bazaar” is one of the lesser known works of the famous author Ruskin Bond. I stumbled upon this book in the… [Continue Reading]
The Stonekeeper’s Curse (Amulet #2) | Kazu Kibuishi | Book Review
STORY: 4/5 BOOK COVER: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 ILLUSTRATIONS: 3/5 ADVENTURE QUOTIENT: 4/5 As in my earlier review, I told that a monster takes away the children’s mother and the story of book one about how… [Continue Reading]
Poly-Trap | Nita Ganguly | Book Review
AGE: 7+ years Wiley is a baby sea horse who joins his mother to explore the sea and the life beyond their little home. Wiley is new and curious to the outside world and he… [Continue Reading]
A Tale of Two Daddies | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
AGE: 4-6 years “A Tale of Two Daddies” is meant for children who have just started reading and are trying to hone their reading skills. The language is simple and easy to understand. There are… [Continue Reading]
A Tale of Two Mommies | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
AGE: 4-6 years A tale of two mommies is a sweet little book meant for children who have just started reading. There are maximum one or two lines per page. The language is also simple… [Continue Reading]
Sing Freedom! | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
AGE: 7-10 years “Sing Freedom” is meant for children between the ages 7 to 10 years. PAGES: 36 The book has a total of 36 pages. Most of these pages contain 4 to 6 lines… [Continue Reading]