Bilingual Books - Gujarati

When her friend's cat, Kaapi, gets lost, Dip Dip goes off to look for it -- on the road, inside dustbins, behind houses, under bushes, everywhere. And when Kaapi finally climbs up a tree and can't come down, the only thing to do is ...?

Story based on a prince who hated food.

Aana the elephant doesn't like his looks. But Chena the yam says he's beautiful. How? asks Aana . . .

Ari may be shy, but he knows he will make a wonderful lion in the class play. When he is neither noticed nor chosen, what does he do? Bold, kitschy pictures capture Ari's transformation into a roaring, growling lion!

Story based on prevention to cruelty to animals; for children.

Story based on prevention to cruelty to animals; for children.

Based on a real friendship between Nina Sabnani's niece and a tree, this heartwarming story reflects on the true relationship between human beings and nature.

Based on a real friendship between a child and a tree, this gentle story is warmed by dramatic pictures in rich colours.

Children's stories

Playful Boondi is a little drop of water who rolls and tumbles in the river. One hot day he feels himself being lifted up, up, up into the sky into a big, heavy cloud. What now?

Brahma gives the caterpillar a huge appetite, so whose fault is it that he's hungry all the time? This amusing story of a creator's small big mistake has lively pictures that tell their own tale!

Story on useful of bamboo; for children

Playtime on the terrace takes a turn when a strong wind sweeps Chhotu off his feet and carries him up and away to the clouds and the bird

Morality based stories develop a sense of understandings of differences in right or wrong, good or bad etc. among the children.

Children of Olcott Memorial High School using a camera for the first time, discover the world around them: a bird flying high in the sky, a spider's web, sunlight on a river...

Dhooli, a tiny speck of dust, flits and floats in the air with her friends. She flies past clouds and birds and aeroplanes. She watches rainbows in the sky. What else does she do in the air?

Lions of Gir.

When Sun was out people did things, but when Moon appeared all they did was sleep! Moon isn’t happy – she too wants to be noticed.

Juvenile fiction

Mister Crocodile gets very angry when five little monkeys tease him from a tree. Aaaaaaaa... gobak! What happens then?

Across the room, over a table, under a chair… Anita follows a long line of ants. Where do they take her?

Gitti the rock is very old. After a long, long journey that started from the boiling hot centre of the earth, he now sits quietly on a mountain, watching the sun rise and set. What is his story?

“Panda, it’s time to get ready for bed!” It’s bedtime for the zoo animals, but Panda doesn’t want to go to bed! He decides to hide among the other black and white animals at the zoo. Join Panda on his nighttime adventure as he swims with his friend Orca, has a snack with the Zebras, and waddles around with the Penguins, before realizing that the best place to be is home!

Guddu's mother wants to take a photo of him. But Guddu will not smile!

There was a time when happiness began to leak out of the world. Everything dried up. No colour, no food, no smiles — only hunger, sadness and quarrels. One old dukariya decided that something had to be done, and she heard from the wind about a magical fish that lived in a green-green lake...

The raja loves jalebis. He even dreams of them. Then the dream becomes a nightmare. The brief text of this mad little book is dramatically set off by illustrations that play with curls and colours.

Drums beating, cymbals clashing, trumpets blowing… the town of Puri by the sea is festive. It is the day of the temple Ratha Jatra and Pria wonders why the idols of Jagannatha, Subhadra and Balabhadra are unlike any other gods she has seen.

On rainwater collecting and save it; for children.

Little Frog, who has lived all his life as a tadpole in the water so far, leaps on to land for the first time when he grows into a frog. He is surprised to find the land dry and he asks his mother when it will rain. When the sky is dark with clouds, his mother replies.

Story on a little frog for children.