June 14, 2005
Kids’ books for bookish kidsKids
Got a desi young’un in your house who loves reading, or one who’s brown-friendly? Author Pooja Makhijani has put together a great bibliography of children’s literature with desi connections (disclaimer: she’s a friend). Check it out.
How these series come back to haunt me now, with their sense of ownership over the world, with the ways in which they defined a world… With all the ways in which they owned words. Strawberry blonde. We read these books, but there was no one like us in any of them. [Betsy, Stacy, Sejal, Tib by Sejal Shah]
Sadly, this plot summary of a picture book for drooling infants could just as easily be a blurb for the books of the mango/mehndi genre ;)
Chachaji’s Cup
Uma Krishnaswami, Illustrated by Soumya SitaramanA boy learns about his family history and the Partition of India from his great uncle, through stories told over a beloved old teacup.
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manish on June 14, 2005 01:18 PM in Kids, Literature · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
Another excellent thread. Sepiamutiny rocks!!
I have had the same thoughts about always being on the fringes culturally and looking for a more complete view of the world. Pooja's and other South Asian books look quite promising in the respect.