MALLIPOO, WHERE ARE YOU?


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When Paytu the pig goes on a sugarcane walk with Amma the elephant and Hutoxi the horse, she asks Anna and Akka to look after her babies. But the two elephant teenagers get busy in a game of coconut-football... and the piglets disappear! Another story in the popular series about little Bahadur and his animal friends.




I'm So Sleepy


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Yes, Hutoxi


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Snoring Shanmugam


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The Animals From The Popular I M So Sleepy Are Back! Shanmugam The Lion Is Supposed To Be The King Of The Jungle But All He Does Is Sleep. Worse, He Snores. Then One Day, Another Lion Enters The Jungle. He Is Lean And Mean - He Is Gabbar Singh. The Other Animals Are Frightened, But How Can They Get The Lazy Shanmugam To Awake To Their Defence? Bahadur The Little Elephant Has A Brilliant Idea . . .




Ecological Messages in Indian Children’s Literature


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ECOLOGICAL MESSAGES IN INDIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE:CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CREATORS -----Dr.Shobha Ramaswamy Indian writing in English for children and young adults has come of age, with a plethora of talented and dedicated writers contributing their creative efforts towards the growth of this new field. The book is based on the author’s interviews with the creators of English-language fiction for the young in India. Specially selected are those who have a deep love for nature. Writers, illustrators, publishers, editors and also environmentalists have been interviewed. The University Grants Commission, New Delhi’s grant of a Major Research Project to the author made these interviews possible. The galaxy of those interviewed include: Meeting the Authors • Nilma Sinha • Ira Saxena • Shamim Padamsee • Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan • Benita Sen • Deepak Dalal • Zai Whitaker • Ranjit Lal • Leela Gour Broome • Sreekumar Varma • Sandhya Rao • Dr.Graeme Macqueen • Ken Spillman • Anushka Ravishankar • Asha Nehemiah • Harini Gopanswami Srinivasan • Radha H.S. • Sowmya Rajendran • Niveditha Subramaniam • D.Ronald Hadrian Views of the Illustrators • Ashok Rajagopalan • Maya Ramaswamy • Priya Kuriyan • Januka Deshpande What the Editors and Publishers Have to Say • Himanshi Sharma, TERI Books, New Delhi • Maegan ,Tara Publishers,Chennai • Mala Kumar, Pratham Books, Bangalore • Saraswathy Rajagopalan, Mango Books, Kochi • Shobha Viswanath,Karadi Tales,Chennai • Mini Krishnan, Editor ,OUP,Chennai. • Sandhya Rao,author and former editor, Tulika,Chennai) Some Suggestions from Environmentalists • Payal B.Molur (Author and Wildlife Educator) ‘OSAI’ Kalidas, Conservat




Madras on My Mind


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Once upon a time by the sea, there was a story - and another and another - and some wandered into these pages to make up a city. So meet, among others, a travel guide who falls for a French tourist, a rice merchant with Kollywood dreams, a god whose editor proves elusive, a portly musical lawyer caught in a noir plot, and a man in search of family in the Great Madras Flood.Find yourself, among other places, in Town, at that gastronomic oxymoron, the Udipi cafe, in Velachery, looking for pot or maybe for love, on Kaanum Pongal day all across Madras, even in a fast car on East Coast Road, fleeing the city - till it lures you back with its lovely lies.It's all here: the salt in the breeze, the eternal summer, the swing of the sea. It's Madras on your mind.




Colour-colour Kamini


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Kapila Aunty Is Teaching The Little Chameleons How To Change Colour, One At A Time. But Kamini Gets Excited And Goes Red, Purple, Green, Yellow . . .She Can't Stop! Meet Baby Elephant Bahadur's New Friend In The Third Book In The Series.




The Unhurried City


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Will You Sing for Me?


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Oru oorla, there was a south Indian boy named Gowtham Sri Ram. He fell in love with his classmate Samrudhayuktha. She had a soulful voice, which reminded him of his lost mother. As they fell in love with each other, a series of events threatened their relationship, which broke their bond mutually. He was in desperate attempts to find a better singer to fulfil the void in his life, and in fact he did find someone better in all ways. Has he found the right person? Or desperately made attempts to stick around trying to work it out? Did he fall in love with the perfect girl? Or the idea of the person? Let's find out! True and unconditional love; it seems perfect. Maybe we are all getting it wrong.




Growing Up in Pandupur


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Welcome to Pandupur! With its bustling marketplace and honking traffic, posh colonies and shanty towns, railway station and dam, forests, parks, and playgrounds, Pandupur means many things to the children who live there. Just like the river Dhun that flows by, it is teeming with life. Through Pandupur s children, Adithi and Chatura Rao weave a web of stories life-lessons in growing up: laughter and tears, insecurities, small unkindnesses and surprising friendships, stories that will resonate in the hearts and minds of children everywhere. "