Because her mother had been forced to sell the family’s Diwali lamps to buy rice, Premlata’s family is too poor to celebrate the Festival of Lights, until she comes up with an ingenious scheme to bring light and hope to her family.
India
Materials from India
Priya’s Day
This is a bilingual book which tells the story of a little girl Priya and her busy day. It not only tells a story in two languages, it engages readers and listeners in a very special way to create their own very special books.
Homeless Bird
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India’s tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
The Elephant-Headed God And Other Hindu Tales
A collection of Hindu myths featuring gods and goddesses, kings and queens, heroes and beggars, angelic beings and demons.
The Conch Bearer
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home many hundreds of miles away, high in the Himalayan mountains.
Ganesh
Uprooted from his home in India by a tragedy, Ganesh begins a new life in the Midwest where his experiences with Hinduism, Yoga, and mantras are considered alien.
Babar’s World Tour
Babar and his family take a trip around the world.
Adventures Of Shambu (Vol. 254)
Shikari Shambu is a bumbling animal hunter who relies on sheer luck and coincidence to catch dangerous creatures, yet manages to convince the rest of the world of his great skill and valor.
In The Village Of The Elephants
A young boy in India helps his father care for Mudumalai, an elephant who works to help clear forests, and protect croplands from wild elephants.
The Blood Stone
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, stopping in India to raise the ransom by selling his father’s beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan.