The Girl Who Drank the Moon #BookReview

Book: The Girl Who Drank the MoonAuthor: Kelly Barnhill This is the story of a town, a cursed town. On its outskirts lies a greater forest. In this forest lives a wicked old witch. The witch demands sacrifice and so each year an infant is taken away by the town elders and left in the …

What’s your God like? #BookBytes 20

Welcome dear friends to another edition of BookBytes. Recently, the son received an abridged version of Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster as a return gift at one of his friend's birthdays. One glance at the book and he rejected it outright. Children can be surprisingly, annoyingly choosy about their reads. Besides, no self-respecting 13-year-old …

October Vibes #BookBytes 17

Hola folks. It's #BookBytes day and I have just the perfect quote for today. It's from another  childhood favourite, (one from the twins' books again!). Unlike last time's quote from The Little Prince. there's absolutely nothing allegorical or deep in this one. It's simple and sweet, quite like the protagonist of the book from which …

Faces in the Crowd #BookBytes 16

I have come to realise that one of the best places to look for book recommendations is my children's English textbooks. They curate excerpts from some of most wonderful reads. I have been doing it for the longest time actually - since my own school days. I'd read an excerpt and find it so engrossing …

The World’s Worst Children 3 #Review

Book Title: The World's Worst Children 3Author: David Walliams Here is a book that’s quintessentially David Walliams. What? Haven’t read Walliams yet? Well then, this is a good place to start. The World’s Worst Children 3, is the third book (obviously!) in this series of the terriblest children you’re ever going to meet. There are …

What’s the deal with Walliams, Allen and the like?

Some of my favourite childhood buddies lived up among the dense branches of a tree that went Wisha Wisha Wisha. Silky, Moonface, the Saucepanman and Dame Washalot. Eager to have the kids befriend them too I picked up this book at the Landmark store. Once I brought it home, however, I realised it wasn’t an Enid …

Wonder – A Review

Wonder by RJ Palacio Let me begin with a warning - this is going to be a rather long post (by my standards).The book more than deserves it. This one came highly recommended. It has won several awards too and I’d planned to read it with the kids. One chapter down the line I decided I couldn’t …

Books, movies and I

Is there anything more satisfying than bullying a bully? For that pleasure alone, if I had to choose a film character to play, I would pick Matilda Wormwood from Matilda. You know her, right? From Roald Dahl’s novel, if not from the film of the same name? I fell in love with the idea of this little …

The Reader

Craft class was in progress. Forty girls sat on either side of a long table bent diligently over their embroidery frames. At the head of the table sat Ms Mathew, The Dragon. That's what the students called her, for she breathed fire at the littlest opportunity. Did I say 40? Well, I meant 39, for the …

Yertle the Turtle

Do you know Yertle the Turtle? That self-centred turtle who made his throne out of his fellowmen.. err fellow turtles? If you don't, well here's his story: Yertle was the king of turtles, king of all he could see. One day he decided that from his seat on a stone he couldn't see too much hence his kingdom was too …