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Varsha Seshan

Gawa’s Bag of Good Regards

January 21, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Lots of adults I know hated the question What do you want to be when you grow up? I know I loved it as a child. I had so many dreams, and I loved talking about them. Sometimes, I delude myself into believing I always wanted to be a writer, but an old, old diary […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, books for ages five and six, Canato Jimo, Gawa's Bag of Good Regards, Hook Book, Picture Book, reading, review

How to Rhyme Without Reason

April 21, 2024 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

How I love guest sessions! Yesterday’s workshop on nonsense verse with Anushka Ravishankar was a treat. It’s delightful how serious nonsense verse is! Full of contradictions, full of rules (of what nonsense verse is not), and full of surprises, we learned so much and wrote nonsense poems of our own too.  Essentially, nonsense writing is […]

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, creative writing with children, guest session, nonsense verse, online creative writing programme, online workshops for children

Moin and the Monster

July 6, 2023 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’m rereading Moin and the Monster with my book club! I read it in June 2021, and all those who read it with me are now too old to be part of Read, Write, Explore, so it’s time to introduce it to a fresh batch of children. At my last creative writing programme, one of the […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, books for ages nine and ten, Moin and the Monster, online reading programme, reading, reading workshop

Ghosts Don’t Eat

March 14, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Ghosts Don’t Eat is the third of Anushka Ravishankar’s books that we’re reading at my online reading programme, and it promises to be just as much fun! We read Moin and the Monster at my book club for slightly older readers and the first of the Zain and Ana books, At Least a Fish, at an earlier edition of […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, book club, bookish activities, books for ages seven and eight, Ghosts Don't Eat, online reading programme, reading, review

At Least a Fish

May 21, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love Anushka Ravishankar’s books. Whether it’s Moin and the Monster or Captain Coconut or At Least a Fish, I find myself chuckling as I read, shaking my head at her wacky humour. Ana, the protagonist of At Least a Fish, wants a dog. She really wants a dog. But her parents go and get her fish instead […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, At Least a Fish, books for ages seven and eight, online reading programme, online workshops for children, reading

Catching Up: MG and YA Books

September 19, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

So many wonderful, wonderful books and so little time! Here are a few middle-grade and young adult books I read in the last couple of months. Gorilla Dawn I know a little about gorillas being endangered because I began to read up bits and pieces about it when I saw articles linking the fate of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, Apple and Rain, Bikram Ghosh, Gill Lewis, Gorilla Dawn, Julia Golding, Katarina Genar, Martin Widmark, Pam Munoz Ryan, reading, review, Sally Nicholls, Sarah Crossan, Shadow Girl, The Sherlock Holmes Connection, Wolf Cry

Moin and the Monster

July 16, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Moin and the Monster has been on my list of books to read for a long time, and I finally got around to reading it mainly because of the essay I did for The Curious Reader on “The Problem With Monster Stereotypes In Literature”. Of course, it was impossible to read every book on monsters for a 1000-word […]

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