Contrary to what most people believe (with perfect reason, I daresay), writing a children’s book is not a piece of cake. And it is certainly not a job to be taken with a grain of salt. It may not require one to have read the likes of Shakespeare and Austen…

Why do you think kids ask to hear the same story again and again? There is a reason for it. As an adult, you do feel it is repetitive and we already know what’s going to happen next and we already know the ending. We know at what point of…

I’ve spent the better part of two decades staring at a blinking cursor or scribbling in the margins of picture book drafts, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that writing for children is deceptively, almost unfairly, difficult. I can’t tell you how many times someone has found out…

Just the other day, I found myself almost wanting to give up on a children’s book I had been writing for my 5-year-old nephew. Almost. I have been writing profusely for children over the last few years so how did this happen to me? Because it happens to everyone. Because…

If your kid is into books, you must have witnessed that magical, almost otherworldly trance that somehow, in that moment, seems to possess them. Something extraordinary happens the moment you call it a day and open a book and that too with pictures in it! All the hopping around and…