A children's picture book and a poem for each week.
Dear all,
Welcome to this journey of discovering the maps, children’s picture books and poems have to offer. Firstly thank you for signing up in such numbers. it’s been a joy to witness so many of us are discovering or wanting to discover what children’s picture books have to offer.
So let’s get started. here’s the first one:
On my recent visit to my mother’s house, mummy had saved some gajar ka halwa ( a winter memory she loves re-making). She said “there is a little bowl I saved for you because I knew you were coming.” I smiled feeling a warmth of what all home means to me. or what I’m have been realising.
Home is where someone saves something for you in the knowing how much you might cherish that thing. such an expression of love, no?
So here’s a children’s picture book that has helped me in my journey of discovering my preferred idea of home. A book that tells a story of many of us who have spent copious amounts of time imagining and dreaming (and still continue to) ‘ when I will have a home, I will…….’
‘When I’ll grow up, I’ll have house’ by Jerry Pinto. Illustrated by Sheena Deviah.
here’s the link to the book:
https://data.booksie.org/pratham-books/130628-when-i-grow-up-i-ll-have-a-house.pdf
and here’s a poem from my all time love - Mary Oliver writing about home :
The bumble bees
know where their home is.
They have memorized
every stalk and leaf
of the field.
They fall from the air at
exactly
the right place,
they crawl
under the soft grasses,
they enter
the darkness
humming.
what makes home for you ? what are tiny tiny moments that might make you feel you are home ?
See you next week.
Bookish warm love from a cold Kathmandu night,
Ravi/Raviraj