Education

This article captures the experiences of creating the Pratham Books Diversity Handbook titled, ‘The worlds we live in, the words we create’. This resource book helps creators to think about, and address concerns related to, diversity and inclusion while producing children’s literature.

This article discusses the experiences of a six-day workshop themed on friendship. In this process, children explored stories, colors, and recycled art to express themselves. What began with hesitation blossomed into joy, empathy, and bold creativity—showing how art can build connection, confidence, and community.

This article discusses the need to foreground the lives and experiences of children from marginalized communities in children’s literature. It argues that discussions surrounding children’s literature have to go beyond literacy and engage with foundational questions related to equity, power and agency.

This is a review of the collection of essays titled ‘Children’s books: an Indian story’, edited by Shailaja Menon and Sandhya Rao. This review highlights the relevance and limitations of the book in contributing to our understanding of children’s publishing in India.

Library experiences with children have repeatedly demonstrated that children are capable of high emotional literacy when presented with texts that trust the mind of the child as well as honor the complexity of lived realities. These emotional competencies are strengthened through sustained engagement with stories in a shared space. This article explores children’s affective responses to literature in the context of library work.

This article explores the library practice of paired reading. It shares how the activity is able to engage children in deep diving into literature collaboratively.