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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 […]

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The Boy Who Loved Birds

September 19, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

There’s something special about Lavanya Karthik’s Dreamers series. With so little, each book does so much! The Boy Who Loved Birds is about Salim Ali as a boy. What questions […]

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Dreamers – Lavanya Karthik

June 22, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I finally read the next two books in Lavanya Karthik’s series, Dreamers. I read the first two nearly a year ago! Once more, the visuals are gorgeous. And the stories? Simple and […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Chapter Book, Dreamers, Lavanya Karthik, reading, review, The Boys Who Created Malgudi, The Girl Who Was a Forest

Dreamers

August 2, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Dreamers. What a beautiful title for a series of illustrated stories about children who dared to dream and then dared to live their dream. The first two books in the […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for ages seven and eight, Dreamers, Lavanya Karthik, non-fiction, reading, review, The Boy Who Played with Light, The Girl Who Loved to Sing