Manjula Padmanabhan Boeken

Set against the backdrop of a bustling city street, this charming 'find-it' book invites readers to search for a cat that always seems to be one step ahead. With a one-line-a-page format and vibrant full-spread illustrations, it caters to beginner readers and younger children alike, encouraging engagement through visuals. The humorous and lively artwork from a celebrated cartoonist enhances the experience, as young readers not only seek out the elusive Pooni but also enjoy a playful cat-crow side story unfolding throughout the pages.

The story follows Om, a desperate young man resorting to selling his body parts due to unemployment. As guards transform his home into a sterile environment, his brother Jeetu's unexpected arrival leads to his removal as an organ donor. Left behind, Om's wife Jaya faces the harrowing choice of whether to sell her body as well, raising questions about survival and moral dilemmas in a society that commodifies human life for the wealthy.

In this brilliantly versatile collection of stories from the award-winning author of Harvest, the reader will encounter a range of themes, from murder mystery to science fiction. The author's vision of a post-apocalypse future is dark, but rendered with a rich vein of irony and humour that allows us to roller-coast with her into a world where air and water and the earth itself take on new shades of meaning. Then there are the here-and-now stories of bodies turning up in backyards, of love betrayed and sexuality discovered, of bitter awakenings and upbeat endings. Intelligent, opinionated, and playful, this is a collection that defies limitations of time, space, and imagination to conjure up new morality tales for our time.

An alphabet book with exciting extras! Rhyming lines make it a fun read aloud to start off very young readers on the path of letters Older children will relish its rhythms as well as the wacky introduction to creatures known and new The bright, bold cutout pictures come together as a colorful first collage of animals and birds, creatures from land and sea From an internationally renowned writer-illustrator

Exploring radical and troubling themes, this debut collection features ten edgy stories that critique contemporary society through a satirical lens. The narratives include a white American widow contemplating a designer sati, a pervert with a magical phallus, and a black American girl reflecting on Hindu civilization. Additional tales delve into dystopian schemes, electronic love, and a scientist facing infertility in India, alongside a coming-of-age story, a marriage proposal, and a thwarted murder involving the Bureau of Reincarnation.

Age range 8+ Three days to go before a gigantic killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things to do. Such as saving the planet. She has a plan drawn up to the minutest detail. All pure science. With just a little help from fridge magnets, a little puppy -- and a special 'shrinking' gift that she has. Columns, short stories, novels, plays, a long-running cartoon strip, Suki...Manjula Padmanabhan traverses all these genres with ease. For Tulika she has created three books with Pooni the cat, as well as four very popular picture puzzle books.

Age range 6+ Oh you creatures of the day!Can you EVER know the nightYou need light so much for sight,When evening falls you don't feel right. 'What is night?' asks a little girl of the owl, the earthworm, the firefly... Glowing out from the pages, their answers merge into a tapestry of the more mysterious sides of night-time and the curious habits of creatures that come to life in darkness.

Timeless stories for boys, and those who remain boys at heart. Pick up an alien's egg; go crocodile hunting; run with a gang of pickpockets; get lost in a magical maze. All this and more in these stories of adventure, humour and imagination. Oliver Twist leaves behind his gang of criminals for a better life; an open window is just what a fertile mind needs in Saki's 'The Open Window'; Satyajit Ray's Badan Babu has a brush with a Pterodactyl's egg; Rabindranath Tagore recollects boyhood days spent dreaming in an abandoned palanquin; and Sherlock Holmes sets off to solve the mystery of the engineer's thumb. Featuring the works of such renowned authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Premchand, Mark Twain and others, and a lively introduction by well-known children's author Paro Anand, The Puffin Book of Classic Stories for Boys is a matchless collection from the masters of world literature for boys of all ages.

A twelve-stop trip to monuments, sites and wonders of the world with a lively family of six. But that's not all. There's detective work to be done! * A picture puzzle book from the multifaceted Manjula Padmanabhan after the award-winning I am Different and the wacky Same and Different * Quiet hints in the jottings of the travellers and helpful clues in the spectacular pictures invite readers to guess where the family's just been - and no, it's not to the place on the previous page! * Vivid, detailed replications give children (and adults!) close glimpses of monuments, sites and wonders of the world, with interesting clues, pops of colour, and groups of entertaining tourists * Explores identity creatively and uniquely, with the artist's trademark humour tickling readers of all ages, everywhere * Perfect for family puzzle time, with pictures that make the readers observe closely and think in logical sequence