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A little bit of reading on Samina Mishra led me to a wonderful essay (‘Why we shouldn’t shield children from darkness’) by an award-winning children’s author, Matt de la Peña, who says, “Maybe instead of anxiously trying to protect our children from every little hurt and heartache, our job is to simply support them through such experiences. I wondered how children deal with these books which make me so sad. On the other hand, like every Indian, I have seen images of people walking to their faraway homes in the burning summer heat and tasted the fear of death, even while hiding in my house. But their language and settings do not speak to me: I don’t have golden locks, gingerbread is unfamiliar, as is a cottage in the woods owned by three bears. However, when it comes to difficult topics like sickness or death, children’s literature in English has always been upfront: think of nursery rhymes like ‘Ring-a-ring-a-rosies’, where people collapse probably because of the plague or ‘Jack and Jill’, about children tumbling down the hill. The Secret Diary of the World’s Worst Cook (Penguin India) by Subhadra Sen Gupta, on mental health Kids wear recognisable uniforms and their families look like mine.
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I like the Indian stories the best because they resonate with me - they either talk about experiences I have lived through or the surroundings they illustrate are familiar.
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In a few days, I’d become so addicted to children’s picture books that I joined a free online children’s library, Storyweaver, by Pratham Books. The previous day, I’d cried in a bookshop while reading Richa Jha’s Boo! When My Sister Died, about a girl angered by her sister’s death and Macher Jhol, also by Jha, about a blind boy who wants to make a fish curry for his sick father. Reliving the collective helplessness, I cried myself to sleep.ĪLSO READ: Children’s magazine ‘Thumbi’ brings out braille stories for visually-impaired readers in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka It dredged up memories of the peak pandemic days, when Facebook overflowed with obituaries, WhatsApp conversations brought only bad news, and television screens showed displaced people walking thousands of miles to reach home. It was factual and didn’t mention death once, but I cried and howled like I knew Jamlo personally. I recently read a children’s picture book called Jamlo Walks by Samina Mishra , about a little Adivasi girl who died during the migration of workers following the 2020 lockdown.