Printable Edition
Then What Happened?
A Children’s Literature Special
A printable companion to our Children’s Literature special — gathering poems, stories, pictures, recipes and questions for young readers and the grown-ups who read with them. Inside: paper boats and plum cakes, a chameleon’s magic, a grandmother’s leftover rotis, a sonnet about courage, and a sock-eating tree.
Designed to be read on screen, or printed and shared with a child you love.
29 pages · Free to read, print and share
What’s inside
you’d find yourself on a search for plum cake. This world without insects would lose all its magic
the way school without friends would become quite tragic. But friends can be found in unexpected places
even when a cat and a dog put you through your paces. When it comes to football, Messi shows the way,
meanwhile, the whole city gathers for Wrestling Day. Should we now pause to wonder where lost things go?
And find solace in poems in times of woe? Perhaps we’ll question the world with a bee in our bonnet,
and then surface to find courage in a sonnet. Amidst serious things don’t forget that on a whim
you can always choose to go for a quick swim. And come back to food, the dish that Nani likes best —
then look for Paati’s lost sock, maybe in a bird’s nest. Meeting again at a restaurant that serves books (not bread and butter),
let’s find more stories that make our hearts flutter.
Contributors
Ogin Nayam · Varsha Varghese · Zai Whitaker · Riya Nagendra · Lubaina Bandukwala · Kabir Jain · T. Keditsu · Rishita Loitongbam · Aparna Kapur · Varsha Seshan · Rhea Kuthoore · Aditya Maheshwary · Reshma K. Barshikar · Shreya T S · Mamta Nainy · Suchi Govindarajan · Chandrima Chatterjee · Rati Girish
Cover illustration by Rajiv Eipe, from A Book for Puchku by Deepanjana Pal · © Pratham Books, 2017 · Licensed under CC BY 4.0 via StoryWeaver.