Do crocodiles really cry? Why do fireflies glow in the dark? What is the rhino’s horn made of? Why does the hare eat its own poop? Fun and informative, the Mysterious Series explains the strange and wonderful facts from the world of nature, science and history in easy-to-understand language, accompanied by detailed illustrations.
Hindu mythology is full of tales in which animals play important roles. In this exquisitely illustrated book, the author retells numerous animal stories from ancient texts, with his trademark charm and wit.
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Puffin Books
Price: Rs. 299
Squiggle is puzzled. She doesn’t quite know what she is! So she sets off through the pages of a notebook in search of answers in this deliciously comic tale.
Author: Natasha Sharma
Publisher: Young Zubaan and Puffin Books
Price: Rs. 150
Combining the features of a map, a pop-up ad a picture book, this one-of-a-kind interactive experience invites the child reader to explore, enjoy and find their own way through the jolly maze of an Indian village carnival.
Author: Subhash Amaliyar and Gita Wolf
Publisher: Tara Books
Price: Rs. 650
First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern’s Im Reich der Interpunktionen (In the Land of Punctuation) is a comic poem on the flow of language—and the breaks in it, turning punctuation marks into characters with their own agendas, in a drama that careens towards an inevitable end.
Author: Christian Morgenstern
Publisher: Tara Books
Price: Rs. 1000
