children's literature
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What can be done to support children’s books illustrators and writers, publishers, and booksellers?
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Neev Literature Festival announces Rs 6-lakh fellowships for children’s book creators
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Welcoming a new school year: 14 books for young readers as they get ready for classes
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Children’s Day reading list: 17 books for readers from the very young to those coming of age
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What did lift-the-flap books look like in the 18th century?
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For young readers: 15 books about the freedom movement and contemporary Indian history
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How best-selling writer Enid Blyton created the template for children’s theatre in Britain
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In ‘Coral Woman’, 45-year-old Uma Mani takes her first deep dive
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Long before fairies were considered cute, they used to drink blood and kidnap children
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How ‘Cinderella’ lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men writers
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Biggles turns 122: Why those who grew up in the 20th Century can never forget the fictional pilot
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Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss racist titles an erasure of history?
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Cat in a spat: Why scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture
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When there is so much darkness in the world, should it really be kept out of children’s books?
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How footballer Marcus Rashford’s book club will bring literature to underprivileged children
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With ‘The Ickabog’, JK Rowling has written the perfect fairytale for an anxious world
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Fifteen writers and artists have teamed up to create this book on the coronavirus for children
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This illustrated storybook shows children how to talk about sexual abuse
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There is so much more to children’s literature than the staples from the Western world
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Why do teachers make students read old literature? What can today’s generation hope to gain from it?
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Indian children’s books are speaking fearlessly. Withdrawing in face of criticism is not the answer
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Children’s books are still too white. Who will change this? Answer: Everyone concerned
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Reading to your children for just 15 minutes every day could help mould them into better readers
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Your efforts to get your child reading could be doing the exact opposite. Here’s what to change
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Why Judith Kerr’s beloved books for children must be read with her autobiographies
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Mothers anonymous: How children’s books have written mum out of the story
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Ten novels to help young people understand the modern world and its complexities
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Thirty years after we first met her, Roald Dahl’s Matilda remains the book-loving hero we need
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Why are many Bengali rhymes and songs for children, loved by generations, so misogynistic?
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Eight bedtime stories to read to children of all ages (but they’re all from the West)
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Children’s books can do more to inspire the new generation of Earth warriors
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How do you adapt ‘The Godfather’ for children? By turning it into a rhyming book about a baking owl
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Earth Day: Nine Indian books that teach children (and adults) the need to protect the environment
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‘Don’t pull my cheeks’: A new literary project is trying to change the narrative in children’s books
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‘The Paper Bag Princess’ is the most famous feminist fairy tale you’ve probably never heard of
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From ‘Sleeping Beauty’ to ‘Cinderella’, no fairytale should be banned for supposed sexual content
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‘Heidi’ in Hindi: A translation brings the classic children’s book to new readers. Will they care?
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How dark is too dark for children’s literature? Writer Paro Anand believes there is no such thing
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If you’re wondering how to raise a feminist, Indian publishing houses might have an answer
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The very silly world of Khushnaz Lala is full of pirates and children who like to play dress up
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‘Children can read about the Holocaust, but not about the violence in Kashmir’: Writer Paro Anand
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A picture book for children on construction sites offers a look into their lives, joys and sorrows
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Many parents won’t read their children scary stories. Perhaps they shouldn’t be blamed
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Peter Pan and Wendy: JM Barrie gave us a glimpse of how the mind works, before psychologists did
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The book of 'The BFG' movie reminds us that wordplay is part of learning and mastering language
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Enid Blyton’s school stories tell truths that matter (no matter what political correctness says)
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Seven kinds of animals we love because they talk in their books
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Do books for children try too hard to be politically correct today?
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How to devour Enid Blyton for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner
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Three books for children that take bullying by the horns
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Five story books that will introduce India’s urban children to village life
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Three absolutely unusual Indian books for children by unlikely authors
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Eight Indian writers your children might want to read