Pai’s prize-winning dahlias are missing. Join Rosa as she races against time to find them.
About the Hook Book Series
In a world where children’s books often feel cut from the same cloth, Hook Books stand out as a vibrant blend of imagination, humour, and heart. Crafted as a bridge between picture books and early chapter books, this series delivers stories that spark joy and wonder, while remaining rooted in age-appropriate learning.
Hook Books keep the fun going with:
- Short, digestible bits of text (perfect for budding readers)
- Bright colour illustrations that pull kids into the story
- Themes that speak to the everyday lives of children—plus a sprinkle of whimsy!
From fantasy tales to those that touch on more advanced ideas, Hook Books ensure that young readers are always in for a treat, no matter their reading level. Even better, these books take children on journeys through different parts of India, giving them a taste of the rich diversity of our world through local flavours, landscapes, and cultures. Whether the story takes place in bustling cities or quiet villages, Hook Books make every setting feel like home.
Vishnu’s chakra spins through space,
Durga’s many arms strike with grace.
From vajra, gada to trishools bright,
Divine tools wield celestial might!
Well-known mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik introduces young readers to the wonderful weapons of Hindu gods with his unique art and easy-to-read text.
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
- Suitable for bedtime reading and parent-child bonding.
- Perfect way to familiarize babies with India’s rich cultural fabric.
- These books offer a fun and enjoyable introduction to Hindu gods and goddesses for modern kids.
- Collect all books in the series!
WHY YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK:
- AGE APPROPRIATE: Written in simple language to make reading easy for readers 3 and up
- STURDY AND DURABLE: Perfect for learning and playing for a long time
- SAFE FOR BABY: Handy format makes this safe for your baby
- PERFECTLY SIZED BOOKS: Easy and convenient for little readers to hold
- BRIGHT AND FUN PICTURES: To keep your little one interested and engaged
- A PERFECT GIFT: For every preschooler for a holistic learning experience
One train ride. Too many animals. Zero rules!
When young Ruskin boards the Lucknow Express with his grandparents, their parrot Popeye, a tiger cub named Timothy, and a peanut-loving squirrel, he has no idea what’s in store. Just as things settle down, an uninvited guest—long, slithery and very well fed—slips out of the tiffin-basket!
Animals on the Train is a laugh-out-loud tale of family, animal antics, and the chaos of travelling together. Full of charm, humour, and Ruskin Bond’s unique storytelling, it’s the perfect chapter book for young readers stepping into his magical world.
Some heartbreaks don’t come with loud goodbyes. They slip away silently, leaving you to carry the weight alone. This book is for those who loved too much, lost too quietly, and are still learning how to let go.
It’s for the moments when memories feel heavier than they should, and healing feels out of reach. If you’ve ever sat with your silence, hoping it would speak back—this book will hold your heart the way you once held theirs.
‘Naina, Naina, Naina, I hear Vatsal’s voice calling out to me,
you’re falling in love with me, aren’t you?’
Meet Naina: a twenty-five-year-old with big dreams and a sceptical heart, searching for love that lasts and a job that doesn’t make her dread mornings.
Enter Vatsal: a charming, unpredictable twenty-eight-year-old lawyer-to-be, interning in Delhi before jetting off to London for his master’s degree.
Their worlds collide unexpectedly, leading to a whirlwind first date. Naina feels an instant connection, like fate brought them together. In days, they go from strangers to friends, best friends and then something more. Everyone thinks it’s just a matter of a few days until they make it official, call it love. How could they not, when it feels this right?
But then comes the Diwali party—the best and worst day of Naina’s life. A devastating event shatters their bond, and they don’t speak. For three whole years.
As fate would have it, Naina and Vatsal meet again. This time, Naina is cautious; Vatsal overfamiliar. Everything feels just as intense as it once did—but can Naina handle the pain that took her years to overcome, if at all? And can Vatsal fight his fears and stay to watch Naina overcome it?
The kick in the ass we all need at some point.
If you’ve ever felt confused, ignored, or passed over…
If you’ve been waiting for your hard work to get noticed, and it hasn’t…
If you’ve wanted to put yourself out there without becoming a cringe-fluencer…
This is your way out.
This book helps you uncover your strengths, sharpen your dreams, and present your value to the world. With the Minimum Viable Self framework, you’ll learn how to do it, without ever dancing awkwardly in Reels.
Whether you’re a professional, founder, chef, fitness trainer, or real estate agent, this is your escape from the shadows. Through a 5-step transformation, you’ll go from invisible to unignorable.
The only question left is: Are you ready to grab the opportunities waiting for you?
मैंने कैंसर को जीत लिया’ एक प्रेरणादायक पुस्तक है जो कैंसर से जूझने वाले लोगों की कहानियों को संजोए हुए है। इस पुस्तक में विभिन्न व्यक्तियों की संघर्षपूर्ण यात्रा और उनकी विजय की कहानियाँ शामिल हैं। यह पुस्तक न केवल कैंसर से लड़ने वालों के लिए बल्कि उनके परिवार और दोस्तों के लिए भी एक प्रेरणा स्रोत है। इसमें बताया गया है कि कैसे सकारात्मक सोच, दृढ़ संकल्प और सही उपचार से कैंसर को मात दी जा सकती है। पुस्तक में डॉ. रेड्डी और अन्य विशेषज्ञों द्वारा दी गई सलाह और मार्गदर्शन भी शामिल है, जो कैंसर से लड़ने वालों के लिए अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण है। यह पुस्तक उन सभी के लिए है जो जीवन में किसी भी प्रकार की चुनौती का सामना कर रहे हैं और उन्हें प्रेरणा और साहस की आवश्यकता है।
Forty years after he left, Vidhu Mirani—the Pritzker Prize winning architect whom Karl Lagerfeld once called the Coco Chanel of today—returns to India when the Prime Minister invites him to design a new public library for the capital New Delhi. But a chance encounter in a park now puts him at the centre of a political controversy and forces him to revisit a past that he thought he had left behind.
As his curiosity unspools into something resembling regret, his old friend Hanif Allana, furiously mastering a grief of his own, engages him in a desperate, obsessive cat-and-mouse game. Binding the two men is Tanya Sinha, the woman they both loved, but neither truly knew.
As each exhumes personal history to locate missing pieces of the puzzle they have individually carried within them for years, painful memories begin to surface.
The Architect’s Dream is a novel that asks the primordial question—how haunted are we by the secrets of others?—with a psychologically suspenseful twist that both devastates and redeems.
Adil Jussawalla’s anthology of Indian writing was first published in 1974. Today, more than half a century later, it remains one of the landmarks of our literature, featuring writers from various Indian languages, including English, whose works have stood the test of time.
The book traces a map of what Jussawalla calls ‘literary and linguistic cross-currents’, through the writings of Nirmal Verma (Hindi), Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali), Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi), P. Lankesh (Kannada) and Ashokamitran (Tamil), among other literary greats.
This anthology challenges the colonial notion of Indian literature as a collection of exotica as well as the terrible misconception that modern Indian writing is an inferior mimicry of Western forms. What we have here is a literary record that stands out for the originality of the voices it contains and yet underscores a set of shared themes and artistic concerns that galvanized these writers and brought them together.
When this book was first published, the pieces collected here were barely a decade old and hence were presented under the rubric of ‘New Indian Writing’ of the time. But as Amit Chaudhuri reminds us in his introduction to the anniversary edition, the term ‘new’ in the title is not merely a reference to recency but to a ‘self-replenishing, revolutionary’ quality that never diminishes in great literature.
Ezra Pound once said that literature is news that stays news. New Writing in India bears testament to those words and to the multifarious tradition of Indian writing.
What really is the true definition of love? That which we set, or that which our bodies define?
When Yash meets Renu, they quickly move from the physical to the metaphysical plane where Renu’s story is unfolding itself in ways that it begins to shake Yash’s world. And as he starts to question his ideas of manhood, of love, of normalcy, he also helps build another world—a world of love, inhabited and unsullied by men.
From delicate layers of human emotions, the author builds a narrative that shows a mirror to patriarchy and redundant notions of love. He punctures the ideals of male gaze and male superiority and jabs a finger at societal norms and the idea of ‘normal’.
She & Hers is not just a story of queer love, it’s also a multidimensional lens under which each character though flawed, seeks a life of fulfilment and understanding.
