Children's Literature

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

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 provides a historical overview of the evolution of children’s literature in India, with a focus on the period after independence. It discusses contemporary trends in genres, and questions related to quality and authenticity.

This article discusses the importance of reading images in picture books with care, attention and sensitivity. It does this by engaging with Manjula Padmanabhan’s book ‘Where’s that cat?’ (2005), to show how a conversation with the images in picture books can add layers to our reading and understanding of texts.