familyVintage Movie Night With The Kids A few months ago I made the mistake of watching Frozen. It was dull and long and did nothing for me except get “Doooo you want to build a snowman?” stuck in my head. It’s one of the most popular By Shivani Shah
babiesBook Review: Alphabets Are Amazing Animals There’s beauty in alliteration. The repetition of the first consonant creates a cadence in writing and speech that, when used well, is poetic. Alphabets Are Amazing Animals is written entirely in alliteration and is a wonderful way to teach kids By Shivani Shah
communication4 Reasons to Learn A New Language A year ago, I enrolled for beginners’ French lessons at the Alliance Française de Bombay. Like many people born and raised in India, I was already multilingual, imbibing several languages with ease in my early childhood. But learning a new language By Shivani Shah
booksBook Review: The Pterodactyl’s Egg Dogs and cats can be trouble. But with a pterodactyl for a pet, the adventures never end. When 9-year-old Sam finds a dinosaur egg fossil, he secrets it away in his room to admire. But the egg fossil has different By Shivani Shah
booksBook Review: Trouble With Magic Nine-year-old Veena is brimming with ideas that send her and her beloved Aunt Malu careening on adventures. These well-intentioned enterprises often end in disaster, but that hasn’t deterred Veena yet. She’s always back with another brilliant idea – this time to help By Shivani Shah
dadsWhat Bespectacled Kids Need Parents To Know When I was six years old I walked into class after a vacation only to have my teacher ask who I was. I was slightly alarmed, but mostly confused; did she think I was an impostor? Was she going to By Shivani Shah
booksBook Review: 8 Ways To Draw An Elephant You can teach your child about elephants, and you can teach your child how to colour. But in 8 Ways to Draw an Elephant, you can teach your child both at the same time. Paola Ferrarotti’s art activity book not By Shivani Shah
Book Review: Akbar and The Tricky Traitor History books are filled with stories of the Mughal era, but I doubt any of these stories are told quite as entertainingly as “Akbar and The Tricky Traitor.” Part fact and mostly fiction, “Akbar and The Tricky Traitor” is a colourful By Shivani Shah
booksBook Review: Sisters The Telgemeier family is going on a road trip. Raina, her younger sister, Amara, younger brother, Will, and their mom are driving from San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado, while dad flies in later. Sound like fun? Not By Shivani Shah
parentingBook Review: Wonder We teach children to be polite. We teach kids to be well behaved. But do we teach them to be kind? Kindness is a recurring theme in Wonder, the debut story for kids by R.J. Palacio, who wrote it after a personal By Shivani Shah
booksBook Review: Horrid High Ferg Gottin could have been a Dimwit, a Lowlife, or a Nincompoop, but he’s not—he’s a Scumbag. But really, Ferg isn’t actually any of these things. These are the names of the houses to which the children of Horrid High By Shivani Shah