Anushka Ravishankar

When great detective Captain Coconut is called in to solve a mystery involving missing bananas, he finds himself using his math skills on a slippery trail of peels.

And the Case of the Missing Bananas

Captain Coconut

Anitha Balachandran

When Moin discovers a monster under his bed, he has a lot of fun with it at first, but the difficulty of keeping the monster a secret from everyone around him makes him decide that he has to send it back where it came from.

Moin and the Monster

After trapping a tiger in a tree, a group of men must decide what to do with it.

Tiger on a Tree

An artistic boy's obsession with drawing cats leads him to a mysterious experience, in a story based on a legend about the Japanese artist Sesshåu Tåoyåo.

The Boy Who Drew Cats

In this quirky world of alphabets, there is no end to the strange things animals get up to.

Alphabets are Amazing Animals

Sirish Rao

Rhyming text invites readers to count the animals who climb up an expanding tree.

One, Two, Tree!

Anita Leutwiler

A roving travelogue through a child's imagination, illustrated with exquisite quilts made from Indian textiles. Drifting off to sleep beneath a picture-quilt made by a globetrotting aunt, the book's young narrator becomes a bright blue mouse, swept away on an unexpected trip to India. Or is it India? The answer to the question is coded in riddling poetry, as the confused traveller navigates her fantastical but all-too-real dream world. Brilliant nonsense verse captures the surreal cacophony of places, people and creatures that make up India.

Excuse Me, is this India?

Gita Wolf

An imaginative approach to child rights--intelligently illustrated and designed.

On Ragpicker Children and Recycling

Trash!

One night, Moin finds a monster "shuffling and sniffling" under his bed. He " ... has to learn to live with the monster which does nothing but eat bananas, sing silly songs and try out new hairstyles. However, keeping the monster a secret from his parents and teachers is a tough task and finally Moin decides that the only thing to do is send the monster back where it came from ..."--Publisher's blurb from p. [4] of cover.

One day, a local fruitseller finds a crocodile in a ditch. Catch that crocodile! should the terrified townspeople. But who will do it? And who says a crocodile should be caught?

Catch that Crocodile!

It was no great hardship for Moin to stop singing, but stopping the monster was proving to be an impossible task ...' When you share a house with a monster who loves to sing, it is unlikely that your first concert will go smoothly. But when a Bollywood music maestro enters the scene and the monster decides to change its colour, life becomes impossibly complicated for Moin. This laugh-out-loud funny sequel to Moin and the Monster will have you demanding more!

Moin the Monster Songster

Pioneering graphic design in a children's book, using typography to create illustrations. Words read like puzzles.

Anything But a Grabooberry

Christiane Pieper

A baby elephant is lost and alone in the forest, when a herd of buffalo comes along and takes him into their fold... so what is he now - elephant or buffalo? Inspired by a true story, this is a joyous tale that touches lightly on the themes of loss, adoption and integration.

Elephants Never Forget!

Are you a Smartypants? Do you ask a lot of questions? Like-- Is the Sun really a star? Which is the hottest planet? Are Saturn's rings made of diamonds? If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book. It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!

The Solar System for Smartypants

Are you a Smartypants? Do you ask a lot of questions? Like- Are all germs bad? What is an antibody? Do T cells go to school? If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book. It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!

Vaccines for Smartypants

This suspense story for small children uses typography to capture the nuances of character and speech.

The Fivetongued, Firefanged, Folkadotted Dragon Snake

Are you a Smartypants? Do you ask a lot of questions? Like- Why do dogs only have dog babies? Are all cats exactly alike? Are humans actually monkeys? If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book. It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!

Evolution for Smartypants

Are you a Smartypants? Do you ask a lot of questions? Like- What is force? What is acceleration? Will you go to jail if you break Newton's laws? If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book. It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!

Newton's Laws for Smartypants

Earthquakes for Smartypants Are you a Smartypants? Do you ask a lot of questions? Like-- What is the surface of the Earth called? Is the Earth actually a rainbow cake? How do you measure an earthquake? If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book. It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!

Earthquakes for Smartypants

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Ogd, a Messiah was born ... with her foot in her mouth. This might be her story. Her position of foetal gaffe allows her to eat her toenails, which nourish her and make her toenails grow so that she can eat them. Apart from the practicality of the situation, this also is the basis of her profound teachings. As the Messiah travels through many dimensions, her followers learn the importance of bells, nirvana, clean feet, Klein bottles and phonetics, among diverse other things. Ding dong. Following in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Anushka Ravishankar writes nonsense, which addresses complex issues of the modern-day world with a deep and abiding meaninglessness.

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