by natashasharma | Sep 16, 2020 | For parents
Don’t we all love indie booksellers? Many of my happiest childhood memories revolve around bookstores. Growing up in Amritsar, we had Rajat Book Depot that stocked a selection of children’s books that never fulfilled my voracious appetite. Then there was...
by natashasharma | Mar 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
In 2010 I wrote a bunch of poems, collectively titled Tadpoles On My Toes and Other Experiences of a City-fied Kid. My first book Icky, Yucky, Mucky! wasn’t even published back then. The collection of poems centres around the thoughts, experiences and...
by natashasharma | Feb 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is something special about reading in a familiar space, on a familiar platform – home turf, if I may. My reading this Saturday at Kitab Khana bookstore as a part of the Children’s Literature section of the Kala Ghodha Arts Festival was one such. With...
by natashasharma | Aug 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
I conducted my 50th book reading, yesterday! I can still recall, rather vividly, the sheer terror that threatened to overtake me at the launch reading of Icky, Yucky, Mucky! at the Kala Ghodha Arts Festival in 2011. The moment when the tremor in my voice stopped and...
by natashasharma | Mar 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Am delighted to share the History Mystery code sheets as a do-at-home activity with your kids. Ashoka and the Muddled Messages features a mystery of Emperor Ashoka’s messages being muddled. In real life we had forgotten how to read the script that Emperor Ashoka...
