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:
- Binya's Blue Umbrella, 1995, Boyds Mills Press, USA
- Angry River, 1972, Rupa Publishers, India
- 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:
- Stories of the Flood, 1994, Roberts Rinehart, USA.
- 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:
- Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India, 1992, Albert Whitman, USA.
- 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