CHILDREN'S BOOKS FROM SOUTH ASIA AND WITH SOUTH ASIAN THEMES


    Jeanine Atkins: Aani and the Tree Huggers (illustrated by Venantius Pinto), 1995, Lee and Low Books, USA
    Anni Axworthy: Anni's India Diary. 1992, Whispering Coyote Press, USA.
    David Barry: The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India, 1994, W.H.Freeman, USA.
    Ruskin Bond:
    1. Binya's Blue Umbrella, 1995, Boyds Mills Press, USA
    2. Angry River, 1972, Rupa Publishers, India
    3. Grandfather's Private Zoo, 1985, Rupa, India

    Jonathan Landaw and Janet Brooke: Prince Siddhartha, 1984, Wisdom Publications, U.K.
    Judith Ernst: The Golden Goose King, 1995, Parvardigar Press, USA
    Dorothy Field: In the Street of the Temple Cloth Printers, 1996, Pacific Educational Press (University of British Columbia), Canada. Non-fiction.
    Mordicai Gerstein: The Mountains of Tibet. 1987, HarperCollins, USA.
    Rachna Gilmore: Lights for Gita, 1995, Second Storey Press, Canada.
    Madhur Jaffrey: Seasons of Splendor, 1985, Atheneum, USA.
    Uma Krishnaswami:
    1. Stories of the Flood, 1994, Roberts Rinehart, USA.
    2. The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha, 1996, Linnet Books/Shoe String Press, USA.

    Caroline Ness: The Ocean of Story: Fairy Tales from India,1996, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, USA.
    Mitali Perkins: The Sunita Experiment, 1993, HarperCollins.
    A. K. Ramanujan: Folktales from India:Oral Traditions based on 22 languages
    Indi Rana: The Roller Birds of Rampur, 1992, Fawcett, UK
    Louis Raimondo: The Little Lama of Tibet, 1995, Scholastic Inc., USA
    Louise Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains, 1993, Puffin Books, USA.
    Kristina Rodanas: The Story of Wali Dad, 1988, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, USA.
    Deborah Lee Rose: The People Who Hugged the Trees, 1990, Roberts Rinehart, USA.
    Susan Roth: Buddha, 1994, Doubleday, USA.
    Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 1992, Viking,USA
    Vikram Seth: Arion and the Dolphin, 1995, Dutton Books, USA.
    Rani and Jugnu Singh (illustrations by Biman Mullock): The Amazing Adventures of Hanuman, BBC Books, UK, 1988.
    Rashmi Sharma: The Blue Jackal, 1995, Vidya Books, USA
    Aaron Shephard:
    1. Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India, 1992, Albert Whitman, USA.
    2. The Gifts of Wali Dad, 1995, Scribners, USA

    Jyothsna Sreenivasan: Moon Over Crete, 1994, Holy Cow! Press, USA.
Titles in this page - contributed in 1995/96 by: Uma Krishnaswami, Dept. of Special Education, University of Maryland College Park MD 20742, USA;Internet: uk1@umail.umd.edu