Phiss Phuss Boom

Phiss Phuss Boom

Author: Jerry Pinto

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9353058945

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Can a fart change a life? Authors Jerry Pinto, Anushka Ravishankar and Sayoni Basu delve into their childhood memories of Goa, Kerala and Bengal, respectively, and come up with three explosive stories. With brilliant illustrations by Vinayak Varma, this book adds a whole new dimension to the term grandmothers' tales.


Moin and the monster

Moin and the monster

Author: Anushka Ravishankar

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0143497723

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One night, in the dim darkness of his room, Moin heard something shuffling and sniffling under his bed ...' It is a monster. Moin has to learn to live with the monster, which does nothing but eat bananas, sing silly songs and try out new hairstyles. However, keeping the monster a secret from his parents and teachers is a tough task and finally Moin decides that the only thing to do is send the monster back where it came from...


Prankenstein

Prankenstein

Author: Ruskin Bond

Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books

Published: 2017-12-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789387164444

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Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories. Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family members regularly fall victim to pranks? Do ghosts and spooks get you into trouble? Find every kind of funny, crazy, impossible mischief in this book. Here you will find the girl who turned into a sloth just for her mother, the horse who went to the library and ate up some classics, the substitute teacher who saw dead people, the play where everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and many more amazing tales of pranks and troublemaking! Selected by Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto, these stories have been written by some of the best children's writers of the country, including Sukumar Ray, R.K. Narayan, Ranjit Lal, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Paro Anand, Bulbul Sharma and many more. As an added bonus, watch out for brand new stories by Ruskin Bond and Jerry Pinto, too. Prankenstein is a delicious treasure trove of trouble and will have every mischief-maker plotting that perfect prank!


Elephants Never Forget

Elephants Never Forget

Author: Anushka Ravishankar

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0618997849

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A lonely baby elephant, separated from his herd of elephants, meets a herd of buffaloes and decides to stay with them, but when they meet up with some elephants, he must make an important decision.


Cause for Alarm

Cause for Alarm

Author: Eric Ambler

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2011-10-19

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 030794994X

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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he’ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor’s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it’s not so simple to just do the job he’s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.


Squiggle takes a walk

Squiggle takes a walk

Author: Natasha Sharma

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-11-21

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9351189007

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Meet Squiggle—curious, confused and crazy! Squiggle is confused. She doesn’t know quite what she is! So she sets off through the pages of a notebook in search of answers. Is she a comma or colon? A question mark? Surely not an exclamation! Splash, run, bump, trip and swing with her until she finds her own kind. Natasha Sharma’s delightful book introduces young readers to the correct way to use punctuation in this deliciously comic tale. It also includes a punctuation primer, and plenty of games, fun facts, activities and questions to help you understand what punctuation does, and how to use it correctly. Jump into this adventure with Squiggle and you’ll never lose that comma again!


The Adventures of Kakababu

The Adventures of Kakababu

Author: Sunil Gangopadhyay

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9353578701

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After a secret mission in Afghanistan ends in a terrible accident, Raja Roychowdhury, fondly known as Kakababu, resigns as the director of the Archaeological Survey of India and goes home to his second-hand books. But the desire to hunt down old, unsolved mysteries of the world refuses to leave him alone. Despite living with an amputated leg, Kakababu insists on taking biannual holidays to remote, little-known areas - and refuses to tell anyone what he does there. Now that he's old enough, Shontu, Kakababu's nephew, has finally been allowed to accompany Kakababu on these mysterious trips. And he cannot wait for the thrilling adventures to begin!In 'The Emperor's Lost Head', Kakababu takes Shontu to Kashmir to find a hidden sulphur mine. Except that that's a lie, and Shontu has no idea how to get his uncle to admit the truth.'The King of the Emerald Isles' finds uncle and nephew in an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. Stubbornly secretive as always, Kakababu refuses to tell Shontu what has brought him to the dangerous island. Is he ready for the answers he might find?


Dhanak

Dhanak

Author: Nagesh Kukunoor

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9353058473

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Chotu is blind, but it doesn't bother him much. His sister Pari helps him with everything. Besides, she's promised him she'll get him his eyesight back before his ninth birthday. And that's just a couple of months away! Pari is worried. How will she keep her promise? When sees a poster with Shahrukh Khan, her hero, saying 'Donate your eyes', she writes to him, asking him to help Chotu. And then she hears that Shahrukh is in Rajasthan for a shooting! So Pari and Chotu set off on a road trip to meet Shahrukh and get Chotu's eyesight back. Through adventure and misadventure, and aided and hindered by a cast of bizarre, friendly, colourful and hostile people, the two children traverse across the desert to try to make their dream come true.;Bonus feature: Behind the scenes with Hetal and Krrish.