For the lovers of Alexander Raskin’s When Daddy Was a Little Boy and Sudha Murty’s Grandma›s Bag of Stories and How I Taught My Grandmother to Read, When Mommy Was a Little Girl (Ponytale Books) is one-of-a-kind anthology that brings fifteen mommies from the lush plains of Assam to tiny villages in Garhwal and Karnataka; from the hill-stations of Shimla and Dehradun to the coal-centre of Dhanbad and the steel city of Jamshedpur and that of the arid plains of Kutch in Gujarat to tell you the stories of how they were as little girls. The book is thus sprinkled with local words for some generic terms in Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Sindhi, Garhwali, Koda-thakk, Punjabi, and Hindi.
An anthology that brings well known children’s writers like Richa Jha, Mitra Phukan, Cheryl Rao, Nandini Nayar, Arthy Muthanna Singh, Mamta Nainy and Shyamala Shanmugasundaram with first time writers like Rohini Vij, Rati Girish, Vidya Nesarikar, Lipika B Uniyal, Debjani Mukherjee, Varsha Pillai, Madhumita Mandal and Ratna Manucha to share a page of their life as a little girl that left an indelible mark on their memories. Edited by Pranav Kumar Singh and illustrated delectably by Abhilasha Khatri, When Mommy was a Little Girl just released this week.
Have you imagined your Mommy as a little girl? Have you ever wondered what your mother was like when she was a little girl?
Was she well-behaved or mischievous?
Was she studious or did she remain lost in her dreams? Did she stay indoors or did she love sneaking out?
Did she climb trees? Did she drape her mother’s saree? Did she dance in front of the mirror?
Fifteen Mommies from Assam to villages in Garhwal and Karnataka, the hill-stations of Shimla and Dehradun to small towns and big cities across India, tell you the stories of what they did when they were little girls. These stories bring to life the childhood of these Mommies – of the fun they had and the pranks they played, their love-hate relationship with their siblings, and how they troubled their parents and much more. When Mommy Was a Little Girl will help you discover what your Mommy was like when she was a ‘Little Girl!’