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Varsha Seshan

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

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

Four Hook Books

March 21, 2023 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

At a workshop recently, I showed participants a few hOle books and Hook Books. I had Malhar in the Middle (one of my favourites), The Clockwala’s Clues (because how could I not?), Cyrus the Whyrus (a […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Aaryama Somayaji, Adithi Rao, Asha Nehemiah, books for ages five and six, Boy Bear, Chetan Sharma, Cyrus the Whyrus, Hook Books, Lavanya Karthik, Priya Kuriyan, reading, review, Wet Paint

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 […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Chapter Book, Dreamers, Lavanya Karthik, reading, review, The Boy Who Loved Birds

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

Books I Read in January 2020

January 31, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I wrote already about the three hOle books I read, as well as about The Lilliputians. But there’s so much more, as always, especially as I was travelling! Instead of doing […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Boo! When My Sister Died, Eva Ibbotson, Gautam Benegal, Habib Ali, Jane de Suza, Lavanya Karthik, Neel on Wheels, Ninja Nani and the Bumbling Burglars, reading, review, Richa Jha, Star Struck, Subhadra Sengupta, Sumanta Dey, Super Zero and the Grumpy Ghosts, The Star of Kazan