TULIKA BOOKS

DESCRIPTION Little Siri slips away from home one day and goes around asking whomsoever she meets to smile. Find out why in the pages of this bright...

DESCRIPTIONIn the beginning, the peacock had no markings on its shimmering blue-green tail. The sun king's daughter sees this beautiful creature on...

DESCRIPTIONThere are strange stories about the big forest at the edge of Arun’s house, and he has been told never to go there. But of course he MUS...

DESCRIPTION At 13 going on assertive 14, Mayil is now on her second diary after Mayil Will Not Be Quiet. “Teen queen,” says Ma. “Terrible teens,” s...

DESCRIPTIONKuk.. Kuk.. The poor rooster can't KUKAROOKOO because his throat is so parched. There is not a drop of water left in the village pond. T...

DESCRIPTION A delightful story about the delectable momo, that flavour-filled savoury that travelled to India from Tibet, Nepal and beyond. Now you...

DESCRIPTION A set of 3 books by Tulika, curated as a combo by The Nestery, that are rhythmic, rhyming, and perfect for bedtime! Contains: Rooster ...

DESCRIPTION It's time to get ready for school and the little girl in this book is still in a world of dreams – of tigers, elephants, the sea... And...

DESCRIPTIONWell-known writers draw upon the oral traditions of Ivory Coast, China, India, Greece, Australia, North America, Spain, Nigeria, Botswan...

DESCRIPTION Whose colour is GREEN? asked the little boy.“It’s mine!” preened the parrot. “It’s mine! It’s mine!” babbled the bitter gourd.Whose col...

DESCRIPTION Pintoo walks home from school one evening, all alone. He is not afraid until the sun begins to set rapidly. Suddenly, he feels himself ...

DESCRIPTIONGundu and Keeri Humongoose take a decision! To move out of the jungle! And so begins their adventure into the unknown… filled with dange...

DESCRIPTION This story written originally in Telugu by a Dalit writer and teacher, is part of a collection of stories of the Dalit experience calle...

DESCRIPTION Stony Lake, Canada, with laughing loons, sullen sunfish and dangerous deadheads — this is where Aditi and friends are off to this time....

DESCRIPTION It is hard not to notice Nabiya in Savita Teacher's English story classes. She listens so hard that she hardly blinks! Slowly, she begi...

DESCRIPTION A dusty path runs through a village where people and animals keep walking up and down, up and down. Others, on faster feet and wheels, ...

DESCRIPTION Santosh travels alone from Mumbai, where he lives with his mother, to Kolkata, on holiday. But he has secret plans to look for his fath...

DESCRIPTION Aditi and friends are on a mission again, this time to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef. From flights on dragonback over blue-green...

DESCRIPTION Siril the ant finds himself bobbing in his matchbox on a river. Where is he? And how did he get there? With him is a little creature wh...

DESCRIPTION The devas are at the gates of the asura kingdom, raring to wage war. But the asuras turn up unarmed and jolly! Is their king, Hasyasura...

DESCRIPTION The great Mor Khan is coming from the city to choose actors for his new film. The birds of the jungle are in a flutter. What should the...

DESCRIPTIONIt lets you feel and find, climb and plunge, sail and savour and soar… all from your favourite spot. What can it be? Find out in the vis...

DESCRIPTIONA charming find-it book for toddlers, from the creator of the other bestselling Pooni books, ‘Where’s That Cat?’ and ‘Pooni at the Taj M...

DESCRIPTION Her diary (or is it her autobiography, she isn’t sure) becomes a rabbit hole and a roadmap to writing her way through life as she sees ...

DESCRIPTION Paploo is a curious little fellow, full of questions and not afraid of asking. And that's how children should be, says the author — ful...

DESCRIPTION Award-winning writer Mini Shrinivasan bases her narrative on true events, and speaks in Manna’s voice to take us into her mind. That’s ...

DESCRIPTION Little Satya lives by the River Ganga in Banaras and longs to row her own boat, just like her father. But he says she's not old enough ...

DESCRIPTION The wheels of a cycle, a merry-go-round, a spinning top… Kayu lives in his own quiet world filled only with circles and the patterns th...

DESCRIPTION Sunu-sunu the snail is playing in the garden with his friends, the ants. Suddenly there is a storm. He ‘hurries' home to his mother and...

DESCRIPTION Moyna lives in a little tribal village. She cannot go to school because she has to tend the goats, collect the firewood, fetch the wate...

DESCRIPTION In the early 20th century, after making pathbreaking innovations in wireless communication, pioneering scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose ...

DESCRIPTION “Let’s play house-house!” decide Sunehri and her friends. So they put together some old plates and bowls, empty packets of chips, plast...

DESCRIPTION Tired of life in Mumbai with his Chacha and Chachi, Arif runs away – far, far away. He hops onto a train going to Chennai. From there h...

DESCRIPTION With repetitive sounds and words that rhythmically roll right through the pages, this story puts the zing back into storytelling and re...

DESCRIPTIONThe quiet villages of Sundarban are terrorised by a monster with wild eyes, sharp teeth, striped skin and pointed nails — Dokkhin Rai! U...

DESCRIPTION Ananya Patel has a penchant for make-up, right from her kindergarten days! Now, a sprightly thirteen year old, her precious cosmetics a...

DESCRIPTION BIG HERO — SIZE ZERO. The perfect male-female bodies — says who? Aren’t sex and gender the same thing? Either male or female, right? Of...

DESCRIPTION Nazneen carefully cooks some fragrant marzwangan kurma for a special family dinner. But just when it is all ready, guests arrive - unwa...

DESCRIPTION It is pouring rain. From her window, little Anju sees familiar scenes of a rainy day – cloudy skies, umbrellas, puddles… But her curiou...

DESCRIPTIONDramatically visual first science books – on space, earth, water, air and places on earth. Friendly storylines initiate young children ...

DESCRIPTION The children of a village in Bengal take the cows to graze in a forest. They like going to the forest especially for its beautiful bany...

DESCRIPTION “I came across a photo of a boy who had survived a bombing. Covered in blood and dust he stared directly into the camera with empty eye...

DESCRIPTION Squiggles and swirls, loops and curls, diamonds and dots. . . and a small surprise! The little girl watches as her mother traces the co...

DESCRIPTION Everybody likes Adil Ali but nobody likes his shoes! They are old and worn, patched and sewn. So his friends decide to gift him a pair ...

DESCRIPTION“Why do you keep saying I’m a boy when I’m a girl?” Guthli asks her mother. In that simple question lies all the bewilderment that chil...

DESCRIPTION Gulab works happily from dawn to dusk in the garden at the house on top of the hill. One evening he takes back with him a big bunch of ...

DESCRIPTION Arvind Krish Bala and his friend, Natarajan, an Irula tribesman, were perched on a treetop at a waterhole in the Parambikulam reserve f...

DESCRIPTION Sonabai lives beside a tree that bears delicious red berries. Every day she picks the berries and makes sweets to sell in the market. S...

DESCRIPTION Ka Iew and Ka Ngot love to play on the hilltop. One day, the adventurous Ka Iew looks at the sun shining down on the distant, sun-drenc...

DESCRIPTION The stars give way to the sun, the clouds to rain, the egg to the little bird… Things change. This truth is brought to children in a ch...

DESCRIPTIONA little chokli, a stray puppy, wanders into a muddy rain puddle one day and loves the icky, sticky, scratchy feeling. From then on, he ...

DESCRIPTION Each finger has its own personality, and when ten little fingers come together, they make things happen. Playful verse and bright pictu...

DESCRIPTION“What will happen if I add up all the numbers in the world?”“Is there a last number?”A toddler captivated by patterns... A little boy fi...

DESCRIPTION An owl drops a purple feather in a forest. A little girl picks it up and there begins a journey into magical lands... The Magic Feather...

DESCRIPTION When Renchu prods her grandmother for a story, Daadi launches into one about when Renchu's grandfather was fooled by a partridge in the...

DESCRIPTION Danger! That's what the digital butterflies seem to be spelling out. There is a Word eater at large who snatches words as soon as they ...

DESCRIPTION Just a day and a half old, the very first words Zakir hears from his famous father, Allarakha, are bols — rhythms played out on tablas!...

DESCRIPTION How did art begin? Where did colour come from, before paints in tubes and bottles? Taking a long step back in history, this book explor...

DESCRIPTION When Sun was out people did things, but when Moon appeared all they did was sleep! Moon isn’t happy – she too wants to be noticed. So s...

DESCRIPTION My Name is Amrita... is the story of an intensely sensitive and talented girl who grows up to be one of India's foremost painters. It r...

DESCRIPTION Kali hates school. And school hates him, he thinks, for he has no friends. The children there find him strange. He wishes his father we...

DESCRIPTION Big, burly Tarlochan is a champion wrestler, eager for some real challenge. So when he hears of Paramjit, reputed to be unbeatable, he ...

DESCRIPTION What does it take for a person to alter the course of a nation? Spotlighting 25 such change-making individuals, the book looks at the t...

DESCRIPTION When the teacher announces that the class will stage The Lion and the Mouse, Ari is thrilled. He knows he'll make a wonderful lion – ev...

DESCRIPTION This is a story about Malu, an adorable young polar bear growing up in the North Pole. As the tale unfolds through the adventures of Ma...

DESCRIPTION Drums beating, cymbals clashing, trumpets blowing… the town of Puri by the sea is festive. It is the day of the temple Ratha Jatra and ...

DESCRIPTION Tiger cub Sultan and his Ammi have a special friend they call Junglee Bina. “Bina is bold. She's not afraid of the forest or the animal...

DESCRIPTION Dhum Dhum Dhum… dhup dhup dhup… Dungi dances to a dhinchak beat in this foot-tapping story that will make young readers move and groove...

DESCRIPTION The story is set against the background of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. But friendship between children knows no barbed...

DESCRIPTIONCan you taste with your toes? Or see with your ears? Or, at least, smell with your hair? No? Well, there are creatures around you that c...

DESCRIPTIONA crocodile with no teeth?Poor Grinder N Grater is old and has lost all his teeth. And he is sick of being laughed at by the other anima...

DESCRIPTION Rain can be fun. But sometimes, ‘lots and lots and lots of rain’ is frightening — when water comes into homes and washes everything awa...

DESCRIPTIONValmiki has barely put down his pen after completing his magnificent creation, the epic Ramayan, when he realises he has competition. Th...

DESCRIPTIONThree days to go before a killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things ...

DESCRIPTIONA wacky lot of numbers have the time of their life in this all-time favourite Punjabi rhyme!AGE GUIDANCE: 0+

DESCRIPTION From oppressive loneliness, Sonabai Rajawar 'makes' her way into a world of beauty and joy! An introduction to the life and unique crea...

DESCRIPTION Ismat's Eid is a crisp adaptation of a delightful Turkish tale. Ismat the shoemaker is a happy, contented sort and on the occasion of E...

DESCRIPTION Ten-year-old Advik comes from the US to India, and what is meant to be a quiet visit is about to jolt him! Did he ever imagine that Nar...

DESCRIPTION The environment is at risk! Gobby, the naughty little hobgoblin, is practising his magic and running amuck in Antarctica – turning the ...

DESCRIPTION Gadagada gudugudu . . . the marble rolls from one child's hand to another in exchange each time for something exciting. The story moves...

DESCRIPTIONA gang of robbers is cutting and stealing sandalwood trees from the forest near Arun’s house. Worse, the guardian of the forest, fierce ...

DESCRIPTION KALABALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! Gajapati loves the cool water. Then he looks around. Where is everybody? After his big-big sneeze, Gajapati Ku...

DESCRIPTION An official visit to Prague takes a strange turn. The naughty granddaughter of Princess Libusha casts a spell on Monkeyji, and the only...

DESCRIPTION Little Nonnu's world revolves around her goat, Appaka. Soft as cotton, Appaka loves to munch on jackfruit leaves and play with Nonnu an...

DESCRIPTIONFlashing swords, firing guns, charging on horseback, planning strategies and talking peace… These women did it all, and how! Sweeping as...

DESCRIPTION Ranganna the little elephant lives near a dhobi ghat. He is captivated by the brightly coloured nails of his friends and wants to paint...

DESCRIPTIONZai’s uncle is the famous 'birdman of India' Salim Ali, everyone in her family is a birding expert, and she herself can’t so much as ide...

DESCRIPTION Mystic weaver, radical reformer, loved and hated equally in his time . . . the simple wisdom of his pithy couplets, the famous dohas, m...

DESCRIPTION It is one among many animal stories they tell children about why and how something came to be – why the sun comes out when the cock cro...

DESCRIPTION Maoo the kitten looks up — and there… above Murali Mama’s jolly smile is something thunderous and black, thick and curly… his moustache...

DESCRIPTION Where's That Cat? is all about looking for a naughty little cat on a busy city street filled with people to talk to and things to look ...