india

A collection of Indian folktales that offer children insight into the traditional culture and history of India.

Describes the plant and animal life of India and its interaction with the environment.

Presents an Indian folktale in which a brahman frees a tiger from a trap, but once the tiger is free he intends to eat the brahman, unless the first three things they encounter decide he should not.

Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition to India to learn about the diverse wildlife found there.

Retells a story from the ancient collection called The Panchantantra about a two-headed bird that teaches a lesson about the importance of cooperation.

The author relates the story of his family's struggle to rise above the discrimination and humiliation associated with being a Dalit, or "untouchable," the lowest level of the Hindu caste system.

A illustrated retelling of a well-known Hindu story of how the god Ganesh was born and acquired the head of an elephant.

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

A biography of Mohandas Gandhi, discussing his early life in India, his move to England to study law, the incident in South Africa that set him on the path to developing his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, his leadership in trying to free India from British rule, and his assassination in 1948.