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My Favourite Picture Books from 2021

January 6, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Each January, when I look through my blog posts and my shelf on Goodreads, I realise how much I’ve read! As always, many of these books weren’t published in 2021; I just read them in 2021. Through the course of the year, I read a range of picture books from wordless ones (which I love) […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: A Cello on the Wall, A Giant Leap, Bear Snores On, book review, Goplu's Train Ride, My No No No Day, My Street, Nanammal and Kamalathal, On Mondays I Want to Hide, Once Upon an Alphabet, One Ted Falls Out of Bed, picture books, The Birthday Menu, The Girl Who Loved to Sing, The Night Monster, Tiger's Delicious Treats, White Socks Only, You Won't Believe Me

Dreamers

August 2, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Dreamers. What a beautiful title for a series of illustrated stories about children who dared to dream and then dared to live their dream. The first two books in the series are about light and song, and I found that quite lovely too. Richly illustrated with stark, contrasting colours, The Boy Who Played with Light and The […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: books for ages seven and eight, Dreamers, Lavanya Karthik, non-fiction, reading, review, The Boy Who Played with Light, The Girl Who Loved to Sing