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Check out beautifully-crafted children’s books, toys, and games by South Asian indie creators.
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Check out beautifully-crafted children’s books, toys, and games by South Asian indie creators.
BhashaKids aims to help grow multilingual and multicultural families in the South Asian diaspora. We make bilingual products in 3 languages (Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam) and are expanding to 10 languages in 2022. We offer vocabulary cards, digital worksheets and bilingual board books where you can learn your Desi language through English. Families enjoy and are successful with our products because we believe kids learn through play.
Culture Groove is a multicultural book publisher and is home to the popular Maya & Neel’s India Adventure Series books. Through a combination of stories, movement, and art, Culture Groove aims to help parents and educators Raise Multicultural Kids. Their work includes Cultural Stories, Dances and more and has been featured on NBC, ABC, Elle, Neilsen, Fox, and more.
Modern, informative and funny, the Dev and Ollie books take children on magical adventures to unique festivals in India. The stories capture the magical relationship of a child and his bedtime cuddly toy, together with cultural learning and lots of fun facts. Author, Shweta Aggarwal, was honoured with the Asian Women of Achievement Award in the Arts & Culture category in 2016, and invited to Buckingham Palace to meet Her Majesty in 2017 in honour of promoting inclusion amongst children.
I create Hindi books for kids learning it as a second language. My books are contemporary stories that can be read aloud to toddlers. They are also language learning tools for older kids, classified according to reading levels. All Level 1 stories have complete English translations while Level 2 stories have a key to difficult words.
Shoumi Sen is the creator of “From The Toddler Diaries”, a series of children’s books on Indian culture and mythology. ‘From The Toddler Diaries’ began as a series of poems that Shoumi wrote for her daughter. This collection was the life of several bedtime story sessions and play dates with friends. Inspired by this interest among kids and encouraged by their parents, she decided to publish the collection.