Beastly Tales from Here and There
10 best books like Beastly Tales from Here and There (Vikram Seth): Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, Ol' Mama Squirrel, Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors, Red Knit Cap Girl, Chickens Aren't the Only Ones: A Book About Animals that Lay Eggs, Let's Face It, Charlie Brown!, Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3], Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Heads
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0670061417 |
Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales - evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's new anthology for younger readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumplestiltskin,...
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 0802715567 |
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
| Author | David Ezra Stein |
| ISBN | 0399256725 |
Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein’s lively tale is a fantastic read-aloud, and feisty Mama Squirrel will have fierce mamas everywhere applauding!
Ol’ Mama Squirrel has raised lots of babies, and she knows just how to protect them. Whenever trouble comes nosing around, she springs...
| Author | Roseanne Thong |
| ISBN | 0811831779 |
Discover shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and more as a little girl finds color in all sorts of everyday things. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, others universal: red is the dragon in the Chinese New Year parade, green is a bracelet made of jade, and yellow are the taxis she sees...
| Author | Naoko Stoop |
| ISBN | 0316129461 |
Red Knit Cap Girl is a little girl with a big dream -- to meet the Moon.
Red Knit Cap Girl lives with her animal friends in an enchanted forest. There is so much to see and do, but more than anything Red Knit Cap Girl wishes she could talk to the Moon. Join Red Knit Cap Girl and her forest friends on a journey...
| Author | Ruth Heller |
| ISBN | 0698117786 |
The wonderful world of eggs.
This book just talks about different kinds of birds that lay eggs, and then mentions reptiles that lay eggs, dinosaurs, amphibians, a bunch of different kinds of fish, and then spiders, insects, and then the two mammals that lay eggs.
The biggest issue...
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 0449205479 |
Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul...
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 2844140858 |
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
| Author | Marilyn Chin |
| ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
| Author | Matthew Van Fleet |
| ISBN | 1442403799 |
Heads is a fun interactive book that explores different types of animals. Van Fleet has found new ways to create the standard pull tab book. Because of it's fragile nature, this would be a great book for parents and younger children (1-4) to share together. As children get older (K-2), it will be an exciting...
श्रद्धा ग्रहण करने की भी एक विधि होती है| मुझसे सहज ढंग से अभी श्रद्धा ग्रहण नहीं होती| अटपटा जाता हूँ| अभी...
| Author | Vandana Singh |
| ISBN | 0670060518 |
In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their father's youngest brother. They have heard many stories about Young uncle, so when he arrives, nine-year-old Sarita, seven-year-old Ravi, and the baby know their lives will be changed. From feeding a tiger spinach-paneer to charming an...
On Balance, an Autobiography
| Author | Leila Seth |
| ISBN | 0670049883 |
The first woman chief justice of a high court in India, the first woman to top the bar examinations in London 73 years old Leila Seth has led a full life. With candour and wit, she tells of her taking up law studies because this could be combined with caring for her husband and son, Intertwining family life...
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 7
| Author | Eiji Otsuka |
| ISBN | 1593079826 |
Collecting can take over a fan's life . . . but what if it takes over their death as well? Zombie robot otaku and plastic-surgery disasters are only the latest faces of horror as Kurosagi continues its eternal struggle to turn corpses into cash! Yet with Kuro trapped in a coma and seeing visions of the dark...
| Author | Etan Boritzer |
| ISBN | 0920668887 |
I really wanted to like this book. I like the title. The titular question, "What is God?" was one of the first questions asked by the young Thomas of Aquinas. Even then his brilliant mind realized that God was so BIG the question 'Who is God?' wasn't enough to encompass all that God is. So it is an accurate...
A delightful new collection of stories and essays, some never published before, by India's greatest living novelist
‘Salt and Sawdust', the title story, is a witty portrayal of a wife who cannot tell the difference between salt and sawdust (when it comes to seasoning food), leaving her...
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
| ISBN | 8129118386 |
Stories Short and Sweet by Ruskin Bond is a collection of his choicest short stories capturing the myriad facets of life in the hills. Humour, nostalgia, love, friendship, trust and betrayal – Bond captures every mood that makes childhood worth remembering. From the nostalgia of country life revisited...
| Author | Amit Chaudhuri |
| ISBN | 0375704000 |
A boy spends a summer and a winter with his parents in a Bombay high-rise, and spends other summers in Calcutta immersed in the more traditional life of his uncle's extended family ... A young man at Oxford, whose memories of home in Bombay bring both comfort and melancholy, faces a choice between "clinging...
| Author | Omair Ahmad |
| ISBN | 0143063138 |
While Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Abdali plunders 18th century Delhi, a wandering storyteller fleeing the carnage happens across an isolated casbah a day's ride from the city. When the beautiful and lonely lady of the manor invites him to stay and share a story, his grief at the destruction of his glorious...
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
| Author | Wendy Cope |
| ISBN | 0571240798 |
The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new arrangement of the poetry as a whole....
| Author | Rama Mehta |
| ISBN | 0704343940 |
Udaipur. That's the first word of the book and the reason for me getting hooked to it right away :)
Set in the princely family of Mewar's current times, this is the story of a modern educated girl from Mumbai, Geeta, getting married to the prince of the Haveli. She has to face lots of challenges getting...
