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Varsha Seshan

 

Roop and the River Crossing

April 8, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

What was the Partition? What ripples do we see today, and how do people in power continue to exploit communal politics? These are difficult questions that one often wonders about […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for ages seven and eight, Chapter Book, Picture Book, reading, review, Samina Mishra

Wrestling Day

April 7, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

When I went for the White Owl Literature Festival in Nagaland a few months ago, I attended part of an event that the author Theyiesinuo Keditsu conducted on her book, […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for ages five and six, Hook Books, Picture Book, reading, review, T Keditsu, Wrestling Day

A Demon in Dandi

March 31, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We all know about the infamous salt tax and the march to Dandi. What would the people of Dandi have felt at the time? Were people even aware of this […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: A Demon in Dandi, books for tweens, historical fiction, Lavanya Karthik, Middle Grade, reading, review, Songs of Freedom

Kadbanwadi Grasslands

March 30, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Ever since grassland safaris were launched several months (years?) ago, we’ve been meaning to go. Although we’ve been on countless safaris in the forest, the grasslands were new to us, […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: birdwatching, Common Pratincole, fox, grassland, Indian Courser, Indian Eagle Owl, Kadbanwadi, Kumbhargaon, safari, striped hyena, wildlife

With the Fire on High

March 27, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

With the Fire on High is my third book by Elizabeth Acevedo, and the first in prose. I loved it! Just like The Poet X and Clap When You Land, […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Elizabeth Acevedo, reading, review, With the Fire on High, Young Adult

Some Places More than Others

March 26, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Finding your roots can be such a complicated thing. Amara has never visited New York City, where her father grew up, and there’s nothing she wants more than to go […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for tweens, Middle Grade, reading, Renée Watson, review, Some Places More than Others

Agassi and the Great Cycle Race

March 19, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Agassi and the Great Cycle Race by Khyrunnisa A. and illustrated by Saumya Oberoi is another fun Silly Billy book! The cover image encapsulates the madness of the book perfectly: […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Agassi and the Great Cycle Race, books for ages nine and ten, Chapter Book, Khyrunnisa A, reading, review, Silly Billy Book

Jumble Sale

March 15, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Shabnam Minwalla’s Jumble Sale is another delightful Silly Billy Book, a lighthearted mystery, which begins with a missing bottlebrush. Who could have stolen it? An evil crow? A ghost? Or […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for ages nine and ten, Chapter Book, Jumble Sale, reading, review, Shabnam Minwalla, Silly Billy Book

The Double Life of Danny Day

March 14, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Double Life of Danny Day by Mike Thayer is such an unusual book! I haven’t read anything quite like it ever before, and I loved it! Danny Day is […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for tweens, Middle Grade, reading, review, The Double Life of Danny Day

Nagaland 2025

March 13, 2025 by Varsha Seshan 1 Comment

It’s been ages since I wrote a travel post, although I’ve been thinking about writing one for a while. Often, there’s so much else I want to write that travel […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Dimapur, Khonoma, Lit Fest, Nagaland, The White Owl Literature Festival

Ghosts, Thieves and Aha! Adventures

March 12, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love the idea of a Silly Billy Book! That’s what the series is called, and that’s what drew me to Ghosts, Thieves and Aha! Adventures by Asha Nehemiah in […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Asha Nehemiah, books for ages nine and ten, Ghosts Thieves and Aha Adventures, reading, review, Silly Billy Book

The Hunt for the Nightingale

March 11, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Gone to a better place. Passed away. Moved on. Passed on. We have so many euphemisms to help us talk about death. But what if, sometimes, you need to hear […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: books for ages nine and ten, Middle Grade, reading, review, Sarah Ann Juckes, The Hunt for the Nightingale

The Girl Who Played with Numbers – Shakuntala Devi

March 10, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Girl Who Played with Numbers by Lavanya Karthik is a lovely addition to her series of biographies for very young readers. A little note tells us that the illustrations […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Biography, books for ages five and six, Dreamers, Lavanya Karthik, Picture Book, reading, review, Shakuntala Devi, The Girl Who Played with Numbers

The Bridge Home

March 9, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Eleven-year-old Viji has had enough. Her mother might believe that her father is repentant and will stop abusing her. But when he hits Viji and Rukku, she makes a decision. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: books for tweens, Middle Grade, Padma Venkatraman, reading, review, The Bridge Home

The Letter with the Golden Stamp

March 8, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Raúf is such a heartwarming story! As a lover of letters (psst: my first novel in letters, The Wall Friends Club, […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: books for ages nine and ten, books for tweens, Middle Grade, Onjali Q Raúf, reading, review, The Letter with the Golden Stamp

The Astoundingly True Adventures of Daydreamer Dev

March 7, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s been nearly four years since we read The Absolutely True Adventures of Daydreamer Dev by Ken Spillman. We had fun reading it, and I hope The Astoundingly True Adventures of Daydreamer Dev […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, books for ages seven and eight, Ken Spillman, online reading programme, online workshops for children, reading, The Astoundingly True Adventures of Daydreamer Dev

Nimmi’s Bizuper Birthday

March 6, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Some time ago, we read Nimmi’s Dreadtastic Detective Days, and although it is longer than most of the other books I choose for Read, Write, Explore, we enjoyed it. It’s […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, books for ages nine and ten, Nimmi's Bizuper Birthday, online reading programme, online workshops for children, reading, Shabnam Minwalla

The Chocolate Touch

March 5, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling is an old book, unlike most of the others I select for my book clubs. Its copyright dates back to 1952! And that’s not […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, online reading programme, Patrick Skene Catling, reading, review, The Chocolate Touch

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944

March 4, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We’ve read one book from the I Survived series at Read, Write, Explore before—I Survived the California Wildfires, 2019. This one, I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, was written way […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, books for ages nine and ten, I Survived the Nazi Invasion 1944, Lauren Tarshis, online reading programme, online workshops for children, reading

The Adventures of Mooli and the Blue-Legged Alien

March 3, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We’ve read the other two Mooli books at my book club (although that was before my current book clubbers were old enough to join), and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed them! The […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Asha Nehemiah, book club, bookish activities, creative writing with children, online reading programme, online workshops for children, reading, The Adventures of Mooli and the Blue-Legged Alien

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