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Gulgul in Jungalu

November 4, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s time to introduce another series to my book club – the Gulgul series! I wonder if the book is targeted at slightly younger readers than my book clubbers, but the number […]

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The Adventures of Mooli and the Bully on Wheels

September 13, 2022 by Varsha Seshan 2 Comments

Just like the second book we’re reading this time, Yikes! Bikes!, The Adventures of Mooli and the Bully on Wheels features characters some of my book clubbers have read about before. In December […]

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Dragonflies, Jigsaws and Seashells

September 9, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

For the first time ever, we’re going to read one of my books at my book club! I am in equal parts nervous and excited. Yes, Dragonflies, Jigsaws and Seashells was […]

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Yikes! Bikes!

September 5, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We had so much fun with The Reading Race a few months ago that I was sure I wanted to do another book from the Ready, Freddy! series sooner or later. Yikes! Bikes! is perfect. The […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Abby Klein, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, Chapter Book, online reading programme, reading, review, Yikes! Bikes!

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

September 4, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

During my first two writing programmes in 2020-21, one participant (who wrote this poem) recommended the I Survived series. She spoke about it time and again, and somehow, I never ended up […]

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A Cello on the Wall

September 3, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

War is a difficult subject to introduce to children, and I’m often unsure of whether it should be introduced at all. Yet, most children are exposed to so much media […]

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The Shy Supergirl

September 1, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

When I launched my book club in December 2020, I began with a hOle book, Trouble with Magic by Asha Nehemiah, and somehow, that became a tradition. During each edition of […]

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Help, My Aai Wants to Eat Me!

July 6, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Yes, Help, My Aai Wants to Eat Me! is as mad and fun as it sounds. I know LOTS of people who express affection by saying they want to eat people up. […]

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Ivy + Bean

July 4, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Every so often, at my book club, I choose a popular, internationally loved book. We’ve read The Rise of the Earth Dragon, The Absent Author, The Sheep-Pig … and now, we’ll read Ivy + Bean. […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Annie Barrows, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, Ivy and Bean, online reading programme, reading, review, Sophie Blackall

Frindle

July 3, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read Frindle quite a long time ago, and it’s EXACTLY my kind of book. I didn’t end up reviewing it on my blog because I kept waiting for a time when […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Andrew Clements, book club, bookish activities, books for ages nine and ten, Frindle, online reading programme, reading, review

The Great River Magic

July 2, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Great River Magic by Nandini Nayar is one of those books with a message, not usually an obvious choice for me to read at my book club. Yet, as I […]

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Petu Pumpkin – Tiffin Thief

June 30, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We’ve read Bookasura and Koobandhee; we’re all set for yet another book by Arundhati Venkatesh – Petu Pumpkin: Tiffin Thief. Petu Pumpkin. Isn’t it a fun name? And doesn’t it seem apt that he […]

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My Grandmother’s Masterpiece

May 25, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

So often, we think of our grandparents simply as grandparents. We are the centre of the universe after all, aren’t we? But Nini discovers that there is more to her […]

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Ghosts Don’t Eat

March 14, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Ghosts Don’t Eat is the third of Anushka Ravishankar’s books that we’re reading at my online reading programme, and it promises to be just as much fun! We read Moin and the […]

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Nimmi’s Dreadtastic Detective Days

March 12, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s been a year since I read Nimmi’s Dreadtastic Detective Days, and I’ve been mulling over whether to read it at my reading programme. It’s a little longer than the books […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: book club, bookish activities, books for ages nine and ten, Nimmis Dreadtastic Detective Days, online reading programme, reading, review, Shabnam Minwalla

The Reading Race

March 9, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Books about books are always fun to read at my reading programmes. At an earlier edition, we read a book with a few elements that didn’t appeal to me. For […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Abby Klein, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, online reading programme, reading, review, The Reading Race

Koobandhee

March 7, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Koobandhee is such a fun book! We read Bookasura a few months ago at my book club, and we enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed doing all the activities based […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Arundhati Venkatesh, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, Chapter Book, Koobandhee, online reading programme, reading, review

A Big Splash

March 6, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read the entire PARI series a few months ago, and I’ve been mulling over them ever since. I’m not usually a big fan of nonfiction, and I haven’t yet […]

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Malhar in the Middle

March 5, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I LOVE Shruthi Rao’s books. We read Manya Learns to Roar at my first reading programme, and even before that, I read and loved Susie Will Not Speak. If anything, I liked Malhar in […]

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Adventure on Wheels

January 19, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Adventure on Wheels is such a rollicking read! The book opens with two thieves stealing a van that belongs to an orphanage. The theft itself is simple enough, but when they […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Adventure on Wheels, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, Chapter Book, online reading programme, online workshops for children, Prashant Pinge, reading, review

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