Children’s & Young Adult Catalogue January–June 2021 June to December 2020 Highlights June to December 2020 Highlights Letter from the Editors Contents

Dear readers, The year 2020 has been a reminder The Puffin Classics list continues to that when the going gets tough, we turn grow stronger with two new additions. to things that are familiar to us: families, The seminal Marathi classic Shyamchi Aai community, food and books. While the has been splendidly translated by Shanta past year has transformed the landscape Gokhale, while Indrani Majumdar is back Puffin of publishing and book buying in a lot with the first ever translation of Another of ways, we bounced back by supporting Dozen Stories by . each other and doing what we loved: Reading is a luxurious escape and at Children’s 7 talking about the books that changed lives. PRHI, we take great pride in planning With this thought, we spent a lot of time the most elaborate ones. Readers can Young Adult 22 thinking, re-energizing and coming up with choose between Sinbad and the Trumpet Learning 27 ideas to encourage new readers to keep of Israfil, The Absolutely Truer Adventures reading. And so we publish our fantastic of Daydreamer Dev, Ninja Nani and the range of gorgeously produced board books Freaky Food Festival and Murder in for early readers in 2021 with My First Melucha. Pirates, moon landings and Puffin Library and My Little Book of Gods magical kingdoms await you. and Goddesses. Finally, Puffin and Duckbill are pumped We continue curating diverse titles for to bring you the comfort of familiarity Duckbill our younger readers through meaningful, with stories by Sudha Murty, Paro Anand, issue-centric picture books such as Ruskin Bond, Jane De Suza, Evan Purcell Sometimes Mama, Sometimes Papa, and Devika Rangachari while also Younger Readers 31 What’s the Big Secret? and Jamlo Walks welcoming a slew of new authors to while adding new titles to our bestselling our lists. Meet Vaishali Shroff, Zarin Virji, Middle Grade 35 hook books and hOle books series Somak Ghoshal, L. Somi Roy, Stuti with Kitten Trouble, A Pinch of Magic Agarwal and the worlds they’ve built Young Adult 39 and more. in our forthcoming books.

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