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Cover for Ammachi's Glasses featuring an illustration of a grandma with large golden earrings on and her eyes closed with her hands in front of her who is tripping over a dog while a cat laughs. A kid in the background looks on in shock. The cover's background is a textured sage green and the title is displayed in bright red with an illustration of a crow above it.

Ammachi's Glasses

Priya Kurian

Ammachi’s Glasses. Priya Kurian. Tulika Books, 2017. ISBN 9789350469088. 28 p. (Ages 0 and up). Picture book.

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Cover of Dadaji's Painbrush featuring an illustration of a gentle looking grandfather with a paintbrush in his hands painting next to a small child who is doing a finger painting next to him. There is a stack of canvases behind them and foliage peaking out from the cover's edges. The background is a muted beige and the title is displayed in bright teal and orange.

Dadaji's Paintbrush

Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Ruchi Mhasane (Illustrator)

Dadaji’s Paintbrush. Rashmi Sirdeshpande. Illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane. Levine Querido, 2022. Originally published in the UK by Andersen Press. ISBN 9781646141722. 32 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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Cover of the Mountains of Mumbai featuring an extra wide illustration of a colorful cityscape and highway along the water with two children in the foreground over top it in a red dress and blue top and shorts respectively. The book's title is displayed in black, white, and red over the water to the left with a banner in yellow and red reading "Karadi Tales" on top of it.

The Mountains of Mumbai

Labanya Ghosh

Pallavi Jain (Illustrator)

The Mountains of Mumbai. Labanya Ghosh. Illustrated by Pallavi Jain. Karadi Tales Picturebooks, 2020. First published in Chennai, in 2019. ISBN 9788193654293. 40 p. (Ages 4-6). Picture book.

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Cover for A Saree for Ammi featuring an illustration of a woman and her child where the woman is making a textile using a loom while her daughter looks on. There are colorful patterned textiles in the background and the cover's background is an orangey brown.

A Saree for Ammi

Mamta Nainy

Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator)

A Saree for Ammi. Mamta Nainy. Illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat. Tulika Books, 2019. First published in Chennai, in 2019. A Sari for Ammi, a revised edition of this book published by Amazon Crossing Kids in 2021, is also available. ISBN 9789389203608. 28 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

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Cover for Thukpa for All featuring an illustration with a decorative grid dividing the cover into squares. Within each square is a person from the elderly to young in a robe-like outfit with floral flourishes. In the center is a bowl of food, the Thukpa, with the title in green above it. Around the cover is a red floral border except for along the top which has a patterened border that looks like a thatched roof in green, purple, and red. The background is orange.

Thukpa For All

Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt

Shilpa Ranade (Illustrator)

Thukpa For All. Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt. Illustrated by Shilpa Ranade. Karadi Tales Picturebooks, 2019. First published in Chennai, in 2018. ISBN 9788193388983. 48 p. (Ages 7-9). Picture book.

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Cover for Tiger On a Tree featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a tiger in white and orange running away from the viewer on a hill into a grove of three trees. The hill and trees are illustrated in black ink. The cover's background is orange and the title is displayed in white.

Tiger on a Tree

Anushka Ravishankar

Pulak Biswas (Illustrator)

Tiger on a Tree. Anushka Ravishankar. Illustrated by Pulak Biswas. Tara Books, 2014. Originally published by Tara Books, in Chennai, India, in 1997; first US edition by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, in 2004. ISBN 9789383145065. 40 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

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Cover for We Are the Dancing Forest featuring a collage-like illustration of a blue polka dotted elephant with a tree coming out of it's trunk running up a purple hill to the left surrounded by birds with a person on top of it while another person chases from behind. The background is white and the title is displayed in bright red and curves along the back of the elephant. The remaining text is displayed in bright green.

We are the Dancing Forest

Raj Shekhar

Devashish Makhija (Translator)

Venkat Shyam (Illustrator)

We Are the Dancing Forest. Raj Shekhar. Translated by Devashish Makhija. Illustrated by Venkat Shyam. Tulika Books, 2022. Originally published as Hum Jangal Ke Jagar Magar in Hindi by Tulika Books, in Chennai, in 2022. ISBN 9789390834716. 24 p. (Ages 5 and up). Picture book.

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Cover of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability featuring an close up abstract illustration of three people with glasses on and one pointing their finger and their forearm and hand spanning the foreground of the cover. There is a thick dark blue border along the top of the cover that is the same color of the clothing on the arm in the foreground where the title is displayed in white and other text is displayed in orange. Information is also displayed in white on the sleeve of the arm in the foreground.

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand

Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam (Illustrators)

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand. Illustrated by Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. Navayana, 2011. First published by Navayana Publishing, in India, in 2011. Also available under the title Ambedkar: incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar from Tate Publishing, London, in 2013. ISBN 9788189059170. 108 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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Cover for The Girl Who Loved to Sing Teejan Bai featuring an illustration of the silhouette of a girl singing up to the sky with her arm outstretched and an instrument in her hand. In the background are the black silhouette of houses and two trees. The cover's background is red with a thick orange flourish down the center.

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai

Lavanya Karthik

The Girl Who Loved to Sing: Teejan Bai. Lavanya Karthik. Duckbill Books, 2021. ISBN 978014351518. 48 p. (Ages 7-9). Nonfiction.

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Cover of Jamlo Walks featuring an illustration of a young boy walking in a city landscape with a bag over his shoulder and a newspaper on the ground in the foreground. There is a cloudy vivid blue sky in the background and the title is displayed in a stylizes rugged white font.

Jamlo Walks

Samina Mishra

Tarique Aziz (Illustrator)

Jamlo Walks. Samina Mishra. Illustrated by Tarique Aziz. Puffin Books, 2021. First published by Puffin Random House India, Haryana, India, in 2021. ISBN 9780143453178. 32 p. (Ages 7-9). Nonfiction.

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Cover for Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection featuring a dramatic pencil illustration of a solitary older woman with a head covering holding a protest sign on a white background with wind-like flourishes around her. The book's title is displayed in red and black.

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection

Ita Mehrotra

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection. Ita Mehrotra. Yoda Press, 2021. First published in India. ISBN 9789382579786. 127 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

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