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An individual booklist is found to reflect the compiler’s own interests and biases. To that extent this booklist does not lay claim to any objectivity. It contains some extremely fine books on education, popular science, maths and children’s stories. Over the years, I have been actively involved in translating and popularising many of these books. At times we have been successful in bringing out low-cost, Indian reprints like for instance The UNESCO Source Book for Science in the Primary School, Publisher : National Book Trust, India.
There is a general dearth of good books on science activities, toy making, origami, and how-to-do-it books. I am against slotting books for specific age groups, for I feel that a good book is a joy for one and all. Suggestions for widening this booklist would be heartily welcome.
Divaswapna - Gijubhai Badheka
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
The Man Who Planted Trees - Jean Giono
(Publisher Timbaktu Collective, PO: Chennekothapalli (A.P.), India.
Mahagiri - Hemlata
(Publisher : C.B.T.)
The Joy of Making Indian Toys - Sudarshan Khanna
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
The Blackboard Book - Eleanor Watts
(Publisher : Orient Longman)
Picture Stories - Radlov
(People’s Publishing House)
Snake Trouble - Ruskin Bond
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Guess What Am I Doing
(Publisher : N.B.T. Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO)
Our Tree Neighbours - Chakravarti Venkatesh
(Publisher : N.C.E.R.T.)
Aakash Darshan Atlas - G.R. Paranjpe
(Publisher : N.C.E.R.T.)
Soap Bubbles - C.V. Boys
(Publisher : Vigyan Prasar, ASCI Building, New Delhi)
The Chemical History of a Candle - Michael Faraday
(Publisher : Vigyan Prasar, ASCI Building, New Delhi)
Environment and Self Reliance - Yona Friedman & Eda Schaur
(Publisher : Human Research Development Foundation, New Delhi)
Riddles in a Tea Cup - Partha Ghosh and Dipankar Home
(Publisher : Rupa)
Who’s Who at the Zoo - Ruskin Bond
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Idgah - Premchand
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Madam Rides a Bus - Villikannan
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
(Publisher : Other India Bookstore, Mapusa, Goa. Pin 403507)
The Little Prince - Saint Antoine De Exupery
(Publisher : Piccolo)
Number Fun with a Calendar - P.K. Srinivasan
(Publisher : Alarsri, Plot 5, Street 25, Thillaiganga Nagar, Chennai)
Water - Rama
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
UNESCO Sourcebook for Science Teachers
(Publisher : Oxford University Press)
Days with Grandfather - Shankar
(Publisher : C.B.T.)
Sujata and Her Elephant - Shankar
(Publisher : C.B.T.)
Mama Moo On The Swing - Jujja and Thomas Weislander
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Dear Pichy - Simret Kaur
(Publisher : C.B.T.)
The Child’s Language & the Teacher - Krishna Kumar
(Publisher : UNICEF/ N.B.T.)
Teacher - Sylvia Ashton Warner
(Publisher : Arvind Gupta, C 7/ 167, S.D.A., New Delhi-16)
The Song of the Bird - Anthony de Mello
(Publisher : Gujarati Sahitya Prakash, P.Box 70, Anand, Gujarat )
Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Joy of Learning Part I & II
(Publisher : Centre For Environmental Education, Ahmedabad)
Spiders -- An Introduction - Vijaya Laxmi
(Publisher : CRE -- A, 268, Royapettah High Road, Chennai)
The Indian Elephant - Ajay Desai
(UBS Publishers 5, Ansari Road, New Delhi- 110002)
Bahurup Gandhi - Anu Bandopadhyay
(Publisher : N.C.E.R.T.)
No-Cost, Low-cost, Teaching Aids - Mary Ana Dasgupta
(Publisher : N.B.T.)
Danger School! - IDAC Document
(Publisher : Other India Bookstore, Mapusa, Goa. Pin 403507)
UNESCO Sourcebook for the Science in the Primary School -
Wynne Harlen Jos Elstgees (Publisher : N.B.T.)
To Be a Slave - Julius Lester
(Publisher : Scholastic India.)
Against All Odds - Stephen Krensky
(Publisher : Scholastic India. 29, Phase I, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon)
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