With the rain pelting against the windowpane, many outdoor plans will be washed away. What do we do then? For those with little ones in the house, this is the perfect opportunity to invest in reading time.
Scroll down to find something for those lazy, rainy days!
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Learn with Pictures: Colours
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will explore the world of colours and learn to identify things around.
With a convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations–the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Opposites
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn opposites along with adjectives and prepositions.
With convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Jobs
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn about different professions and the subjects associated with them.
With convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Things that go
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn about 25 types of transport, shapes and colours along with adjectives and prepositions.
With convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: ABC
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn the English alphabet along with adjectives and prepositions.
With convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with pictures: First Words
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will build their vocabulary by learning words in varied themed sections of the book.
With a convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations–the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Body
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn about human and animal anatomy along with their different features and functions.
With a convenient format, various activities, and vivid illustrations–the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Numbers
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn numbers. counting, matching, identifying colours and lots more.
With convenient format, various activities, and the vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
Learn with Pictures: Animals
This bright activity book filled with pictures is perfect to discover key concepts, new words and facts!
Your child will learn the names of 35 animals along with adjectives and prepositions.
With convenient format, various activities, vivid illustrations-the book will equip kids with reading, language, visual, motor and imagination skills.
For ages: 3+
The Boy Who Loved Birds by Lavanya Karthik
Before Salim Ali was a world-famous ornithologist, he was a boy curious about the mysteries around him. Especially the mysteries of birds.
For ages: 7+
The Girl Who Climbed Mountains by Lavanya Karthik
Before Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mt Everest, she was a little girl with dreams as big as the sky.
For ages: 7+
How the Mango Got its Magic by Sudha Murty
We all love the sweetness of mango and how it quenches our thirst on a hot summer day, but have you ever wondered how the mango got its magical sweetness?
The tale of how such sweetness came into existence is a fascinating one indeed. India’s favourite storyteller brings alive this delightful tale with her inimitable wit and simplicity. Bursting with captivating illustrations, this gorgeous chapter book is the ideal introduction for beginners to the world of Sudha Murty.
For ages: 5+
Tara And The Friendship Theorem by Chitra Soundar
Tara and her best friend, Farida, are experts at the traditional Indian game of Pallanguzhi. But when Tara’s family relocates to the UK, Tara has to say goodbye to her best friend. Who shall she beat at Pallanguzhi now?
As Appa and Amma get the new home ready, Tara and her brother check in to a weekend retreat, Camp Wilderness. Wow. Do Tara’s parents even know who she is? She’s more what you’d call an indoorsy person, with her love of coding and maths.
To distract herself from all the trees and animals and general wildlife – shudder – she sets out to find a new friend. No one can ever replace Farida, but Tara’s determined to find someone almost as awesome. This is the perfect opportunity to test her Friendship Theorem!
Maths has never let Tara down before – surely it can help now? But as Tara applies her theorem at Camp Wilderness, could she miss a friendship that is blossoming right under her nose?
For ages: 9-12
Amma, Take Me to the Taj Mahal by Bhakti Mathur
Travel with Amma and her boys to one of the seven wonders of the world, a symbol of an emperor’s love for his queen and the pinnacle of Mughal architecture in India, the Taj Mahal.
Walk with Amma, Shiv and Veer through the sprawling gardens that replicate paradise on earth. Gaze at the mausoleum and admire its astounding architecture, breath taking scope and perfect symmetry. Marvel at the intricately decorated white marble walls engraved with precious stones. Travel back in time 500 years as Amma narrates the story of how the Mughal Empire was founded and the historical, cultural and personal stories that lie at the genesis of this magical monument.
Told with interesting stories, anecdotes and vibrant illustrations, this series is an introduction to Indian monuments of historical importance.
For ages: 9+
