#picturebooksbyIndianauthors
Nitya wants to be just like her grandfather, thatha, who enjoys eating fiery-hot red pickles. But her plea to taste them is turned down because pickles are “too spicy for children”. however, br>
Nitya is not one to give up. When she finally gets her way, she is disappointed to discover that that they are indeed too spicy. What does she do to satisfy her ‘Pickle Mania’? a delightfully delicious story of a little girls resolve to have a Pickle of her own.
Oh-oh! Ammama’s sari has a hole in it! So she gets down to some snipping and stitching. And the sari becomes a pretty curtain, a snug baby-sling, a perfect plaything for the cat . . . Niveditha Subramaniam’s stunningly textured cloth collages weave through the pages of this wordless picture book with the touch and feel of the sari. To her, they evoke comfortable sensory memories of her own Ammama — the grandmother for whom upcycling was as natural as being in a sari.
"Are you there, Amma?"
"Are you inside, Amma?" Kiran looks everywhere in the kitchen, in the balcony and even in the unlikeliest of places!
Where is amma? follows Nandini Nayar's whimsical What Did You See? and the very popular What Shall I Make? which has editions in the US and the UK and was cited by the Honour List of the United States board on Books for Young People (USBBY) in 2010. Srividya Natarajan's charming watercolour illustrations make this book one warm and irresistible hide-and-seek story.
Ammachi can’t find her glasses one morning and everything goes topsy-turvy!
Page after page spills with drama, humour, detail and local flavour as Priya Kuriyan spins a hilarious tale about a crazy day with unforgettable Ammachi— ‘the archetypal grandmother from memories of my own childhood in Kerala,’ as Priya says. A celebrated illustrator, she is at her best in this her first wordless picture book.
With repetitive sounds and words that rhythmically roll right through the pages, this story puts the zing back into storytelling and reading aloud. Bright, zesty pictures and dynamic visual text echo the lilt, making it one big book of fun.