Friday, February 15, 2013

Dear Zoo

Rod Cambell
Very nice story telling and introduction of animals and their properties for small kids

wiggle march!

Nice children picture book. Nice illustration and selection of material.

100% baby-proof :)
Chew-proof, drool-proof, and rip-proof. It is indestructible & will not tear or turn gummy with teething, completely washable.

Tedy in the house

Nice cloth books for small kids

Mommy, Carry Me Please!


 Jane Cabrera (Author, Illustrator)
A baby animal asks its mother to carry me please.
Nice illustrations helps kids to observe animals.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar


Children's picture book designed, illustrated and written by Eric Carle
Nice illustration style, talks about fruits, days nice story telling

BROWN BEAR BROWN BEAR WHAT DO YOU SEE


by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Very good illustration, simple words and talks about animals, colors.
My daughter's favorite book-1

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Emerging Mind


Vilaynur Ramachandran                                                       This is amazing book about our mind and its functionality. It will redefine thoughts about “intelligence” of individual and way we look at it. The phenomenal work by Prof. Vilaynur Ramachandran, in book he explained with the help of small experiments conducted by his team and the patient history. It also talks about art appreciation, which make easy for me now.

Monday, November 26, 2012

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)


Mark Haddon
I don’t enjoy much fiction stories, but this one is exception (There are many but few). Novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher with (autistic spectrum condition). Unique characterization give enough space for writer to deal and express the mental condition and thoughts of 15 year old boy, so no need to have interesting plot(It is interesting but secondary). For me it is applied psychology book to refer how “some” people think. How someone can be truthful throughout life. If M.K.Gandhi’s book “My Experiments with truth” talks about the usage of “Truth” in life and this novel is how someone can be truthful by default and don’t know how to lie (There is no selection button between truth/lies).

It also talks how someone can make mathematics interesting to cool one self. How someone can be capable of making mental maps… truly genius book…

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Bahinabai chya kavita (1880-1951)


Bahinabai Chaudhari
Her poems extremely simple and are of few words, very rhythmic, reflects real day-to-day village life and are composed in the form of “Owees”.
Bahinabai was illiterate, but she used to sing while doing daily chores in the field, her son Sopandev re-wrote and published them.

Madhushala (1935)


Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Madhushala is the collection of poems by Shri. Harivansh Rai Bachchan's, it is mystic, sufi, philosophical in nature and the same time very realistic to life. To read Madhushala is just shear joy ride.
It compares relates and translate metaphysical meaning of life with the help of metaphor like madhushala or bar, madhubala/saki, madhu/hala/wine, pinewala…
Life is relative