Got a desi young’un in your house who loves reading, or one who’s brown-friendly? Author Pooja Makhijani<\/A> has put together a great bibliography of children’s literature with desi connections (disclaimer: she’s a friend). Check it out<\/A>.<\/P>\n Sadly, this plot summary of a picture book for drooling infants could just as easily be a blurb for the books of the mango\/mehndi genre \ud83d\ude09 \n <\/P>\n A boy learns about his family history and the Partition of India from his great uncle, through stories told over a beloved old teacup.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n Previous posts: Haroun<\/EM><\/A>, Ghee Happy<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got a desi young’un in your house who loves reading, or one who’s brown-friendly? Author Pooja Makhijani has put together a great bibliography of children’s literature with desi connections (disclaimer: she’s a friend). Check it out. How these series come back … Continue reading How these series come back to haunt me now, with their sense of ownership over the world, with the ways in which they defined a world… With all the ways in which they owned words. Strawberry blonde. <\/EM>We read these books, but there was no one like us in any of them. [Betsy, Stacy, Sejal, Tib<\/EM> by Sejal Shah]<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
Chachaji’s Cup<\/EM>
Uma Krishnaswami, Illustrated by Soumya Sitaraman \n