Karadi Tales

DESCRIPTION Bela gets lost again! This time, at the railway station. Has Nani boarded the train that she just missed? Will the kind ticket collecto...

DESCRIPTION Sameer is bored. Whatever Amma gives him, he exhausts its possibilities in minutes. Can Amma find something to keep Sameer occupied? ...

DESCRIPTION Friends don't say mean things about you behind your back. Friends let you play cricket with them even when they don't need an extra fie...

DESCRIPTION Lakshmi and Sundari are an unusual pair of twins with an unusual connection. But not everyone knows how special they are until they're ...

DESCRIPTION The Ebons made the best grandfather clocks in the town of nimish . . . They were such excellent makers of grandfather clocks that they ...

DESCRIPTION Sometimes, people tell tall tales just for fun… Bundal was one such person. He spent his whole day telling tall tales until one day, ...

DESCRIPTION Are you a true-blue lion who loves being in charge? A dreamy-eyed fish who lives in an alternate universe? Or a strong-willed bull who'...

DESCRIPTION A beautiful Royal Bengal tiger, Dorje, is missing his stripes. In a small Buddhist monastery in Tibet, Master Wu, a gentle-hearted monk...

DESCRIPTION Bela's lost her Ma at the bazaar! Where could she have gone? With the help of a whole new host of friends including an intrepid goat an...

DESCRIPTION Babban Hajjam is curious to know why barbers who go to the palace to give the king a haircut never return. When it is his turn to be su...

DESCRIPTION Raghunath boards a train from Mumbai to Vajraghat and shares his compartment with a stranger. Raghunath's curiosity is piqued when the ...

DESCRIPTION Sadiq loves stitching colourful patterns on rugs. However, his Ammi reminds him that boys in his community don't stitch, they tend to t...

DESCRIPTION ..stone buildings seemed to rise out of a largely garden-like environment, and in the distance were the towering ghats. Snehagao was......

DESCRIPTION Scqealichtitz! And there went the little lizard's tail! Poor little lizard… he now needs a new tail. Join him as he goes about looking ...

DESCRIPTION I can't buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train… Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classm...

DESCRIPTION Nekgaon is a perfect village. Yes, everything's perfect from the cock's crow to the setting sun. But one wily man arrives and changes e...

Doma has come all the way from Ladakh to visit her friend Veda in Mumbai.    While Doma loves the sights and sounds of the big city, she longs for ...

DESCRIPTION To conjure up the charming Mr. Brungle, a coven of witches stir up the Great Brungle Brew. For this they toss in a lounge of lizards an...

DESCRIPTION For centuries people have sought to make sense of the world around them and this holds true for trees as well. Why does the coconut hav...

Every night, when the owl hoots and the shadows of the trees dance on the walls, the Night Monster creeps into Avi's room and frightens him.  One d...

DESCRIPTION Creepy crawlies and winged insects disturb baby Roy. Bitten, stung and harassed, Roy grows up to dislike them. But one day, things chan...

DESCRIPTION Featuring spirited and relatable protagonists with disabilities, these books encourage understanding and empathy. These stories that fe...

DESCRIPTION Sion is a fortune-teller who lives in an ancient Chinese kingdom with his son and a beloved horse. When he begins to experience a serie...

DESCRIPTION A young girl traces her mother's journey through the city of Delhi, writing letters to her along the way. Every monument holds a memory...

See them lurking on the street, Find them playing, watch them eat! Shadows tall and tails hairy Are they cute, or just plain scary? They're rats bi...

How do fat monkeys get thin?  Chakrapani, the monkey chieftain, decides that the only way for his tribe of monkeys to lose weight is by going on a ...

DESCRIPTION We'll show them we can do things they never even thought of doing!” [Tarini's] mind raced. “We could just try things out, you know, lik...

DESCRIPTION Maya's family refuses to believe that she has an elephant in her backyard. But the elephant is not hers and he needs to return home! Sh...

DESCRIPTION Tak-Tak! Where did that noise come from? Did you hear it? Is it a ghost? Well, once a young man heard this noise everywhere and he thou...

DESCRIPTION What Thea wants more than anything in the world is a tree a real tree to climb and hide in, to sit under and dream. But in the city w...

DESCRIPTION How long does it take to hatch a kitten? Cat isn't sure, but she would rather be snacking or napping. Join her as she looks around for ...

DESCRIPTION Akiro draws only cats… cats, cats and more cats! No matter what he is asked to do, he simply draws cats! And this artistic tendency lea...

DESCRIPTION In the beautiful Rajasthani village of Posalia, four puppets come alive and lead exciting lives until their masters decide to replace t...

DESCRIPTION In Baddbaddpur, it's impossible to keep a secret. Everyone gossips about everything! Then one day, ill-tempered Pandurang wishes to kee...

DESCRIPTION Sesha is a silent boy who reads all the time… and he has a little brown book that no one has ever seen the inside of. One day, Sesha sp...

DESCRIPTION Raju has a humble lunch every day. One day, he discovers the delicious smell of yummy bajjis coming from Babu's stall. He soon starts t...

DESCRIPTION What if we started our own school? Eleven-year-old Selva's home is a valley with swaying palms, fertile farms and freshwater pools - it...