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Varsha Seshan

I Wish, My Street, Timmi in Tangles

January 20, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

January 2021 has already been so full of lovely things! I launched the second edition of my online reading programme, and I’m delighted that it came into being because parents of participants in my current programme wrote and asked if I would consider continuing the sessions. It was also a month when I received so […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: I Wish, My Street, reading, reviews, Shals Mahajan, Storyweaver, Timmi in Tangles

Top 14 Picture Books I Read in 2020

January 7, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read so many picture books each year that I’m sure I’ve missed out at least a few that I read and loved in 2020. Also, I find it difficult to review picture books in detail, so this is just a list, with links to earlier posts I wrote about the books, or, in the […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: picture books, reading, reviews

Top Six Young Adult Books I Read in 2020

January 5, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’ve already shared two lists of books, but I think it’s important to say – again – that reading levels differ widely, and in multiple ways. For instance, I know that as a child, my linguistic level (in English) was higher than that of some of my peers, but I often read books for children […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Broken Soup, Elizabeth Laird, Half Brother, Jenny Valentine, Kenneth Oppel, Moonrise, Nomads Land, Paro Anand, reading, reviews, Sarah Crossan, The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling, Wai Chim, Welcome to Nowhere

Giggi and Daddy and Four Others

October 23, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Yes, this post is about five picture books I read last week, but Giggi and Daddy is special, so special that I think it’s probably one of my favourite picture books of all time! I bought a bunch of books at Pickle Yolk Books’ birthday sale and ah! I could read all of them over and over […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Dance of the Wild, Gautam Benegal, Giggi and Daddy, Love Like That, Mithila Ananth, Nayantara Surendranath, Pickle Yolk Books, picture books, reading, reviews, Richa Jha, Ruchi Mhasane, Srividhya Venkat, The Tree Boy, The Unboy Boy

The Charm of Children’s Literature

November 7, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I read and review books all the time. A glance through my blog shows me that I’ve written over 300 posts about books! Though I didn’t look through all of them before writing this post, I’m sure a majority of them are reviews of children’s literature. I’ve written about fictional teachers, rereading old favourites, writers […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: children's literature, essay, reading, reviews, The Curious Reader

Catching Up – Reading

June 9, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Picture books The thing about picture books is that I read so many delightful ones one after the other, particularly thanks to Storyweaver. I finish one, another is recommended to me and I read it … And so, I don’t end up writing about any of them! Here are a few that stayed with me. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Amra and the Witch, Cosmic, reading, reviews, Running Girl, The Best House of All, The Grand Patch-up, The Great Chocoplot, Would You Rather