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"The Wishing Game" by Meg Shaffer is a magical and heartwarming story about a brave and creative girl named Lucy. Here’s a simple summary suitable for school children: Summary: Lucy Hart lives in a big, old orphanage. Even though life isn’t easy, she stays hopeful and dreams of becoming an artist. She loves a book series called The Wishing Game , written by a mysterious author named Christopher “Kit” Harington. One day, Lucy gets exciting news: she’s been chosen to take part in a special competition called The Wishing Game! This contest is super magical and only for a few lucky children. If Lucy wins, she might get her biggest wish granted. Key Points: Lucy’s Dream: Lucy dreams of being adopted and having a family of her own. She’s also passionate about drawing and wishes to become an artist. The Wishing Game: The competition is full of fun and tricky challenges. Lucy and other children must solve puzzles, complete creative tasks, and face magical adventures. Friendship an...

  Amazing story of five brothers who looked exactly same. They each possess a special talent: the first brother can swallow the sea, the second has an unbreakable iron neck, the third can stretch his legs to incredible lengths, the fourth is immune to burning, and the fifth can hold his breath forever. Appealing story which binds the reader and fall under folktale genre. Illustrations of book is broad and attractive.  

Again a wonderful piece of work by Sandhya Rao who brings marathi folktales with fabulous illustrations. Sonabai the central character of this story lives near a tree which bears sweet berries. She earns by making sweets out of this berries. She was happy and content until this fox named kolaba comes in her life. Author chooses her words appropriately and brings out the folktales around the country with beautiful illustration. This story is one such example. This book is appropriate from grade 1 to grade 9. Good read aloud for Pre- Primary too.

This is story taken from the oral tradition that runs through Bhilala tribe in Madhya Pradesh. Bhilala Tribe believed that there was no land before but only water. The troubled people who were fed up of being wet, prayed god to give them land so that they get dried and remain like this ever. Finally their wishes come true. This book brings out oral tradition of the tribe through words and beautiful illustrations. Picture that we see in book is original mud wall paintings. 

Binya is another child who receives the blue umbrella from foreigner in exchange for her leopard claw pendant. Soon the umbrella become part of her routine. But it doesn't end here, a local shopkeeper, who wants the umbrella and tries every possible way to lure the Binya. His jealousness become obsession. But it is after all Binya's innocence that solves the conflict of the two. Ruskin Bond is everyone first choice as his story connects with all age group. Perfect setting, good characterization, great narration.

One important part of scuba diving is calculating the amount of weight you’ll need to descend and ascend safely during a dive, which can be complicated. An incorrectly weighted dive can be very difficult. Why is it important that your weight is right during a dive? Your air consumption will be improved, you’ll have better control of your body and be able to make smooth descents and ascents, you’ll be able to hold your position during safety checks, and you’ll enjoy your dive more. If you are not correctly weighted, there will be signs during your dive. For instance, your streamlining will be off. Streamlining allows you to maintain a horizontal position in the water. If you are overweighed, your chest will be high and your legs will be below, and you will have to inflate your BCD (buoyancy control device) to compensate. If you're underweighted, your legs will be high in the water and your chest will be low and you will have to continuously kick to keep yourself down. This ...

How did the Tiger get her stripes? Very few scientists understood how these patterns emerge during the development of an organism and this mystery was solved curiously enough by a mathematician and not a biologist. This is an episode from The Maths Factor series; covers that how Maths and Biology- two subjects when brought together have given the world some of the most miraculous findings! This episode explores this curious connection while wandering through tiger terrain and observe the mathematics behind the patterns on their coats, climb evolutionary trees to see how closely one specie is connected to the other, it also travels to the 19th century and tracks the cholera outbreaks Source: NCERT Watch the video: Click Here

BummBumm Bole A 2010 Hindi film by Priyadarshan, starring Darsheel Safary, is entirely based on Iranian film Children of Heaven. Critical response to the film 'Children of Heaven' was highly positive. Some critics compared it to Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). Roger Ebert's review in the Chicago Sun-Times called it "very nearly a perfect movie for children" that "lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much American entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of good-hearted purity". In 1998, it became the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, losing to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni. The majority of its US earnings came after the nomination was announced. After the film had become well known worldwide due to the Oscar nomination, it was shown in several European, South American, and Asian countries between 1999 and 2001. It was ...