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Top Ten: Middle-Grade Books in 2018

January 6, 2019 by Varsha Seshan 2 Comments

My list of favourite middle-grade books was the most difficult one to make! Until the second I hit ‘Publish’, I kept changing my mind about which books to include. I almost made this top fifteen – it is my blog after all, no one is dictating how many I should have here … But I restricted […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: A Library of Lemons, Charmed Life, Dear Mrs. Naidu, Perijee and Me, reading, review, The A-Z Djinn Detective Agency, The Bone Sparrow, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, The Girl Who Walked on Air, The House with Chicken Legs, The Wolf Wilder

Reading, Writing, Dancing

October 19, 2018 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, I asked the children at my Writers’ Club whether they would like to make readers laugh or cry. Three girls said they wanted to make readers laugh. 12 said they wanted to make readers cry. When a few said they would like to do both, those who had already raised their hands […]

Filed Under: Dance, Random, Workshops, Writing Tagged With: Academy of Indian Dances, Ammachi's Amazing Machines, I Am Not Afraid, programme, St. Mary's School, Storyweaver, The Elephant Bird, The House with Chicken Legs, The Tigers of Taboo Valley, Writers' Club