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May 12, 2018

Ranganna (Tulika Publications) - Kids Book Review


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Read on this kids book review of the book Ranganna from Tulika Publishers. 

Book: Ranganna
Creator: Arthi Anand Navaneeth
Distributer: Tulika Books
Age in yrs : 4+
Recommendation : Strong


Ranganna, a fascinating book for moppets who loves to paint their nails.



It is a book about a blue child elephant named “Ranganna” who lives close to a dhobi ghat.


The elephant is exceptionally enraptured of the hues around him. He goes insane over the shades of garments spread over the ghat for drying, shades of the blossoms, rainbow colors etc. This little elephant had two little companions called Anushka and Aditi. One day when his companions came to offer him food, he saw the dazzling hues on their nails and opened up about his desire to get his nails shaded. Ranganna’s companions begun giggling saying never knew about an elephant wearing nail clean. Still Anushka and Aditi did not need their friend to get frustrated, they began tallying elephant toes with the goal that they can bring an alternate shading for each nail as Ranganna wished. At the point when the elephant nails are painted with nail hues, the Ranganna was overwhelmed with euphoria and did his most loved elephant dance imparting the joy of nail hues to every one of his companions in the ghat.

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We can utilize this book to present hues, fundamental counting and elephant dance to moppets.

Book Review by Vaishnavi Yelchur. Read all reviews by Vaishnavi HERE.

This post first appeared on Moppets Wiki


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Nov 21, 2017

The Magic Umbrellas - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews



Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is The Magic Umbrellas! Read on this full book review. 


Book: The Magic Umbrellas
Author: Theertha Raj
Illustrations: Nancy Raj
Publisher: MsMoochie books
Recommendation: Strong
Age: 3+ years



Story

A little girl Leela's umbrellas keep getting lost. First day of school, she loses her first one, no one has a clue, on second day second one, but someone sees it, flying out of the window, third day third one goes 'whoosh' and everybody sees it flying out. Where are they going? Leela's mother decides to follow the forth one!



The suspense is built and unfolded in each passing day. We are kept glued till the end.

What I Liked

Suspense: I liked the 'Suspense' angle. I like children stories that try to incorporate suspense or investigation theories with very simple stories. And more so, I loved the ending, the suspense ends with a strong message.

Illustrations: detailing in illustrations like mess of classroom in the break time, vapor evaporating from hot cutting tea, umbrella designs is wonderful.

Green highlighted text: the story uses two fonts, one - normal and second - highlighted bold and bigger green fonts, these bigger fonts tell you all about the umbrellas.

Our Experience

Let me tell you about a couple of questions asked by my kid and answers given by me after 3rd reading of this book. 

Q: mom how can Apoopa be young here (see the pic above) A: Oh! this coconut incident happened when he was young, so...
Q: what's pillion? A: back seat of a scooter
Q: How can author and illustrator both be 'Raj' A: just a coincidence Q: what's a coincidence? A: ...and i explained



I am sure each book and each story has a plethora of opportunities to talk, discuss and derive at learning and values we seek out in life.

Go ahead and enjoy this umbrella unfolding its magic!


Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at 
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

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Fun With Alphabet Stories - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews



Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Fun With Alphabet Stories! Read on this full book review. 



Concept: Alphabet Stories
Book: Fun with Alphabet Stories (Set of 6 books)
Publisher: Navneet Publications (India) Ltd.
Age: 1.5+ years
Recommendation: Strong




Concept

Alphabet stories are conceptualized to focus on the derived learning it imparts, of words beginning with a particular alphabet. For instance Story of letter 'A', 'B' and so on till letter 'Z'. So there are always 26 stories. These stories can be designed in a progressive way to suit the audience from toddlers to kids age 11-12 years.

Primarily, each Story has many words beginning with that particular alphabet.

The ones designed for toddlers are very, very simple stories packed with as many simple words of that alphabet as feasible.

This is the best way to enhance a kid's vocabulary without fussing about it.

About The Set

There are many books available in the market based on the concept. But this set by Navneet is my absolute favorite.

Divided into 6 six books, there are of course 26 stories. Let's look at one of the stories. Story of Letter 'G' for instance:

Geeta Gorilla guards a Guava garden in Gauhati.
Through the gaps in the wall, goats get into the garden to eat the guavas.
"Eat some garlic and blast the goats with your breath," Ganju the goose suggests.
Geeta eats lots of garlic.
She blows her garlic breath.
the goats gag and hurry away.
Geeta is garlanded as the best guard in Gauhati.
"Thank you, Ganju," Geeta says gratefully.


Just 8 simple sentences, telling a proper story (the story has a problem and its logical resolution too), packing as many as 14 different 'G' letter words, including 3 proper nouns and 7 common nouns is an achievement in itself.

Don't you think?

Our Experience



I picked up this set when my child was just one year old. Like most of my books, I didn't pick it up for teaching anything. I picked up because, I wanted books with silly simple small stories to be read to a one year old. What followed was beyond my guess. Kid loved all the stories no ends. I had no choice but to follow 3 steps 1) read out 2) re-tell 3) repeat!

My Recommendation

Buy the set, start with Story of letter A, sit on the story for as long as child wants you to, read, tell, repeat! Move on to Story of letter 'B' when your child tells you to.

You may also want to check out my video review of this set in this video below. It also includes a read-aloud of story of letter 'F' for reference.




Even though I recommend these books for 1.5 years onward, I have successfully done storytelling of these stories with much older kids too.


Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at 
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

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Clumsy - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews



Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Clumsy! Read on this full book review. 


Book: Clumsy!
Author: Ken Spillman
Illustrator: Manjari Chakravarti
Publisher: Tulika Publishers
Age Group: 2+ years
Recommendation: Strong



About The Book: 

Disability is not always physically glaring, sometimes it's more like inability to do things the way it's expected. The book tells a tale of a girl who lacks heavily in what we call 'motor skills', yes! And how she is been treated by all around her on this point alone.

Family, friends, teachers call her names; Some call her 'Clumsy', some 'Butterfingers', some 'Slowcoach', some 'Messy' and what not!



One day, her grandmother gives her a paintbox. She loves to paint. In her imagination she is not clumsy, not butterfingers, not messy. She loves to draw and paint her imagination. She also signs off her painting with a name, that's not Clumsy or butterfingers or messy or slowcoach, but with her real name. Because she has one just like all of us.

The beauty of the story is the message hidden in it. Let's accept all inabilities around us instead of shaming! Let's focus on abilities a person possesses rather than not.

I some times wonder... forget about kids, aren't we adults clumsy at times? It is the time to accept.



Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at 
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

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Oct 3, 2017

Sea In A Bucket - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews

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Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Sea In A BucketRead on this full book review. 


Book: The Sea in a Bucket (An Avehi-Abacus Story)
Publisher: Eklavya Pitara
Illustrations: Deepa Balsavar
Age Group: 3 years +
Recommendation: Strong




About The Book: 
The book is a pictorial representation of our 'Water-Cycle'.

It starts like this, "This is Sonu", "This is Sonu's Bucket", "This is the tap that brings water to fill Sonu's Bucket" and so on it goes to describe backwards what gets water to the tap, lake, river, mountain, clouds, and role of the Sun and the Sea.

The previous sentences gets repeated with each step forward, which makes the reading rhyming and fun.

The last page also deals with what happens to the water after Sonu bathes with it. It completes the circle.

Illustrations:
Illustrations steal the show here. At the end of the book, there is a chart given compiling all the illustrations of this book. This 'all pics-no text' chart speaks for itself and explains the whole water cycle.

And of course there is more to the illustrations then just water-cycle. The detailing of - at the residence, river, lake, mountains, at the sea has much more to talk about than just the water-cycle. 


Somebody is feeding the dog, someone's brushing teeth, a lizard on the wall, fishing, goatherd, some writing happening at the banks of the river, snow clad mountains, Yaks, Snow leopard, monks pine trees, mountaineers, and more. 

Oh! One can play a fine spot game with these illustrations. 

Our Experience:
We vacationed in Sikkim this summer. I had ordered a set of 22 books from Eklavya Pitara and this book was one of them. I had no clue what was inside the book except for the concept. Imagine our surprise when we received this book just after returning from Sikkim! It was like re-visiting our memories of the mountains we had just visited. How? (see pics) the snow clad mountains (Zero Point), the Yaks, the flower valley (Yumthang valley), Teesta river, the monks and the monastery, the pine trees, the flags of monks on the mountains, the tea leaves plucker with her basket.... woohoo! Couldn't have asked for more!


A must have book!


Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

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1001 Words To Talk About - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews


children kids book review the k junction 1001 words to talk about alka publication

Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is 1001 Words To Talk AboutRead on this full book review. 


Book: 1001 words to talk about
Publisher: Alka Publications
Age: 0-2 years
Recommendation: Strong




Wondering why have I placed this book (1001 words) in 0-2 yrs age group?

Let me tell you why and all about it..

The book claims to cover 1001 words (who knows? I have never counted... Because I didn't buy the book to teach a number of words)

Experience With The Book: 
About this... As I see it... (Why I bought the book):

When I saw the book in a bookstore, all I saw were pictures of our day to day lives to talk about to my tiny tot, such as:

  • our family
  • wake up time scene
  • going to school
  • indoor, outdoor play time
  • in the kitchen
  • bedtime
  • at the beach
  • at the doctor's
So on and on ... About 38 topics are covered.

(Two pages cover one topic)



Each page/topic has a) one big sized illustration for that particular topic b) sentences within the illustration c) questions about the picture d) pics of objects covered in the illustration.


For instance - (See pic) Topic: 'let's get dressed' - 'father is ironing his trousers', Ena is combing her hair, etc. Sentences can be read to a toddler while pointing at the pictures.

How to go about:

  1. First just read out the pictures by reading out sentences written within and add your own sentences if you wish (I did. For eg. I would say Ena was looking at herself in the mirror, there was a yellow round clock above the mirror, etc.)
  2. Second, play spot Game... ask them to point out objects within illustrations. Eg. Spot an iron, spot a clock, etc.
  3. Third, at later stage when you have chewed and chomped this book with your toddler and have practically taped each page (like us ... oh! very important parameter of judging .. ha ha)
Go on with asking questions suggested on each page.

Don't buy this book:
  1. for teaching kids anything
  2. period

Buy this book:
  1. to show relatable situations based illustrations and to talk to the kids.
... and be rest assured to achieve what the book is probably intended for by the publishers, that is learning 1001 words more or less.

We loved this book no ends. You will too. Have fun! Learning is a by-product.

Source: I bought from a bookstore. However on the book they have given website address, you can check there too. (www.alkapublications.com)


Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

Do not forget to follow us on Facebook page & closed Facebook group, Twitter and Instagram for day to day updates that might not always find a place on this blog. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to know more about our early learning journey, DIY & Montessori-inspired activities for kids, kids books & toys reviews and much more!


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Phonics Story Time Library - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews

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Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Phonics Story Time LibraryRead on this full book review. 


Book: Phonics Story Time Library (6 in 1 stories)
Publisher: Shree Book Centre
Age: 6 months +
Recommendation: Strong






Experience With The Book: 
Learning Phonics the fun way is the aim of the book. So basically it is for pre-primary school kids (Age 3.5+) learning Phonics.

Then why am I recommending it for 6m+ babies?

Well, because my reasons for buying this book were completely different from what is supposed to be the aim of this book. I bought this book when I didn't know what the word 'Phonics' meant.

I bought this book because it had -
  • silly simple fun stories, with JUST ONE sentence on each page
  • big fonts

You see? 

I was looking for books for my then 8-10 month old.

So we enjoyed each story of the book as it is, without caring about learning sounds and for next 4 years post buying!

It's a progressive concept book (which I realized much later when I learned about Phonics along my parenting journey). Let's look at a few sentences from a story called 'Chippy and Chuck' to showcase how the story and learning progress.

Page 1: Chippy was a chicken
Page 2: One day, Chippy was munching chestnuts when someone said:
Page 3: "What a charming Chicken you are!"
Page 4: Chippy looked up and saw a smart Fox.

......story goes on to describe this cunning fox luring chippy to come to dinner with him promising chocolate and chips and cherry-pie etc. Naive chippy thinks fox is kind. Just then Chippy's best friend Charlie the Chimp arrives there and chases the fox away, scolding Chippy on being so foolish.

Simple, isn't it. A good message too (though that's not the aim). You can notice lots of 'Ch' digraph words and other sound based words too.

You can start reading out these stories to your tiny tot and keep on doing so, till the child is about 3-4 years old when you or the school introduce Phonics, sounds and Digraphs. At which stage the child will be able to (without any provocation) tell you .. "look mumma, it's Ch/Sh/Ou/ng etc. digraph!"

A wonderful collection of 6 stories to be read again and again to learn sounds without being aware of it.


Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

Do not forget to follow us on Facebook page & closed Facebook group, Twitter and Instagram for day to day updates that might not always find a place on this blog. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to know more about our early learning journey, DIY & Montessori-inspired activities for kids, kids books & toys reviews and much more!


Hope to see you around. Happy Parenting!


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Read & Grow Series By Navneet - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews

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Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Read & Grow Series By NavneetRead on this full book series review. 


Book Series: Read And Grow Series by Navneet
Publisher: Navneet Education Limited
Age: 6 months to 3.5 years
Recommendation: Strong



About The Series:
There are 16 books in the series available in sets of 4. So in all there are 4 sets A,B,C,D containing 4 books in each. 



Very simple and silly little story is covered in each book, just the way it should be for a tiny tot. At age 6 months to about 2 years, they are picking up sounds and learning to communicate using simple words. Anything you talk to them is a story.

These books are just that. It talks to the child about something in a storyway. No, but don't confuse them for knowledge books or books to teach words like 101 words or Pictionary, etc. Because it does the same job with simple stories.

First two sets, A & B, have about one or two sentences for one illustration per page. Set C has about 2-3 sentences and set D has about 3-4. So, in a way the series in progressive in nature and you should take up reading out them in its order for the maximum benefit.



Availability:
Navneet's books are available on first cry and Raj Kart and Amazon too but currently shows out of stock. The best way is to call them up and find out their nearest dealer's address and go there to pick it up literally.

Experience With The Book: 
I have a trunk-ful of memories reading out these books to my then tiny tot.

I bought these books when my child was just 9ms old. I had this Navneet's store near my house and I used to visit them and ask if they have anything for such a young child and very hesitantly they showed me this series .. I loved the very sight and picked it up.

The first book from the series I read out was Kanji's Bullock cart (Story: Kanji uncle has set his cart to go to the fair. Two kids ask him, 'Can we come with you to the fair?', He says Yes. Next he is asked and says Yes to a peacock, a dog, a turtle, etc. and the cart becomes too heavy. they lose balance and fall on each other, Bullocks get scared and run ahead. They had to walk to the fair on feet. Later Bullocks calm down and they return to the village happily sitting in the cart)

(All stories are this very simple)

It was an instant hit with my LO. I read it again and again for 10 to 15 days before my child let me move on to the next. The same thing got repeated for each of the first 12 books.

It's impossible to count the number of times ..
  • I read out these books
  • I told these stories at parks, in autos, in cars, at airports, in trains, at bedtime, at anytime.........
  • my child cuddled, played, licked, chewed off and tore these books ....
  • I taped the torn pages of all these books
  • I put my child as well as fellow passengers' children to sleep telling these stories 

A must, must have series if you have a child below 3 years. 

Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

Do not forget to follow us on Facebook page & closed Facebook group, Twitter and Instagram for day to day updates that might not always find a place on this blog. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to know more about our early learning journey, DIY & Montessori-inspired activities for kids, kids books & toys reviews and much more!


Hope to see you around. Happy Parenting!


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Oct 2, 2017

Gajapati Kulapati Gurburrrrrooom - Children Book Review By Shital Choudhary - #MondayMorningReviews

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Wondering which books to read to your child? Welcome to this wonderful 10 weeks long project of #MondayMorningReviews where Shital Choudhary, a passionate storyteller & a mom herself, shares children's book reviews every Monday! The age group for these books is 0-4 years. This review series will help you choose the best books for your baby / toddler / preschooler / kindergartener. This week's pick is Gajapati Kulapati GurburrrroooomRead on this full book review. 


Book: Gajapati Kulapati Gurburrrrrooom
(this is the third book in the Gajapati Kulpati (GK) series.
Author: Ashok Rajagopalan
Publisher: Tulika Publishers
Age: 6 months +
Recommendation: Strong




About Gajapati Kulapati:
Gajapati Kulapati (GK) is a gentle BIG elephant, who is a darling of all the villagers. They fuss a lot over him, feed him, play with him, take care of him ... and he loves them back.

About The Book:
In this particular book, villagers like banana-seller, farmer, flower-seller and post-man feed different things to GK. After over-eating in this way, he gets a BIG stomach ache. Everybody starts getting worried. Post-man goes on to call the doctor ... how will he get cured? Read the book to find out.

About The Series: 
There are three books in this series, all super hit among young children. Each book tells you a funny little tale of the friendly elephant named Gajapati Kulapati. The name itself is a tongue twister to the toddlers and that's the beauty ... toddlers LOVE to repeat "Gajapati Kulapati - Gajapati Kulapati" in their cute little baby-language and the storyteller enjoys this constant interaction whilst telling the story.

Sounds Used In The Series:
The series has one quite notable feature, which is its Sound language. Lots of sounds are used to describe events, emotions, gestures and actions. For instance, the second book in the series (GK- Kalabalooosh) uses sounds like Plish, plosh, glish, glosh, bloosh, woosh, kalabaloosh to represent splashing into the water sounds, Gaga-Gada Gadum gadum for sound of elephant's speed of running. The GK - Gurburrrrrooom book uses Mummmmmummmm sound to represent chewing, eating, Owowooooh! for crying, etc.



Toddlers and tiny babies would JUST love these sounds, maybe because that's just the thing they learned very first in their lives?

About The Author:
Ashok Rajagopalan (popularly known as Achhok Rajgolapan or Ashok Rajapalanan, etc. among the toddlers) has not only created this brilliant kiddy tongue twister name Gajapati Kulapati and its cute stories but also beautifully illustrated all the books in this series.

Not to be missed series for all the toddlers and of course performing Storytellers!



Book review contributed by Shital Choudhary
Chief Reviewer at
Children's Book Reviews & Stories


Shital Choudhary is a passionate storyteller (a Kathalaya Alumina) and a mom to a 6 year old. Apart from power of stories in teaching concepts and values, she believes that stories can come at your rescue absolutely at any situation in your parenting journey. You can reach out to her at storywayschool [AT] gmail.com. She documents her book reviews, recommendations and reading out experiences at her Facebook page - Children's Book Reviews & Stories


This book review is a part of 10 week long project #MondayMorningReviews which is going on in our Facebook Group. Join in the tribe of involved & conscious parents HERE now! You can find ALL the book reviews under this project HERE.

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Hope to see you around. Happy Parenting!


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Feb 22, 2017

Caution - What Books Can Do To Your Toddlers - Book Recommendation


Effects of vigorous book reading sessions as per my son's demands!

My 2 year old son 'A', playing with his local train miniature and telling me -
A : mumma jab delhi jaayenge to local train me baithenge (when we go to delhi, we will go in local train)
Me : mumbai has local train like this you have in your hand, delhi has metro train. We will go in metro train when we go to delhi
A : ok...mumma bangalore me kaunsi train hai? (Which train is there in Bangalore?)

:O

PS - He is a big fan, rather an addict of mumbai book, absolutely adores delhi book and we just started reading bangalore book day before yesterday. This book series from Funokplease publishers is a must have for kids!

Geography has a new meaning in our house ;)




Happy reading aloud & happy parenting :)

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Feb 15, 2017

Exclusive Discounts On Kids Imported Books & Indian Publisher Books - THE BOOKMARK


[NEW DISCOUNT OFFER ON KIDS BOOKS]

We, at THE K JUNCTION, realize the importance of reading aloud to kids - starting from newborn phase to toddlerhood & beyond. We are excited to roll out an EXCLUSIVE 10% discount offer on kids preloved imported books & all major Indian publisher books that are available at this awesome webstore called THE BOOKMARK. The discount code is available in our closed group here www.facebook.com/groups/thekjunction and it expires on 15 MARCH 2017. So join my group right away & grab the books with this irresistable offer from THE BOOKMARK. Please note that you have to sign in to their website http://thebookmark.in/ to be able to use this discount code. 

Now you can, rather you SHOULD, go on & read the details below :) 

Here is what Swathi, Founder @ THE BOOKMARK has to say -
Reading to children, even before they can understand words, teaches them to associate books with love and affection. There are so many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. BOOKMARK is a complete bookstore for kids of all age groups, where the books are available at unbelievable prices and will be cheaper than any other stores without compromising on the quality. LET US SPREAD THE JOY OF READING. Shop without draining your pockets. “There is more treasure in books, than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”-Walt Disney. 


Join THE BOOKMARK facebook group today - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebookmark4kids/
Brand New Website - http://thebookmark.in/

Here is my own short & simple story - 
Books have been our best friends since my son was in my womb. I used to read a lot of spiritual books when I was pregnant. I would sometimes read him Panchatantra stories too back then. After he was born, once I got settled in some kind of a routine, I or any family member would read aloud books to my son. He seemed to enjoy a lot :) It was when my son was 3 months, I came across the concept of preloved imported books, those were sold for much less than the MRP. There was no need to browse Amazon or Flipkart for the international bestsellers & US/UK publisher books & make a huge hole in the pocket. Preloved books were much more affordable. Then I got to know many of the Indian publishers as well, for kids' books. They are equally good, sometimes better because the illustrations, storyline, characters in Indian publishers' books were very relatable. THE BOOKMARK has been operating through their facebook group for long & I myself am a happy customer of THE BOOKMARK. Recently, they have launched their beautiful website & this offer is to celebrate the website launch.


So what are you waiting for? Browse away their wonderful collection & build a mini library for your child! Gift him/her the treasure & love for books :)


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