3 Hindi story ideas, each one a book your child stars in: Varnamala, matras and the joy of writing your own name in Devanagari for the first time. Pick one, add a few details, and the illustrated book starts right away.
Every story is painted in a soft, hand-drawn watercolour look, with your child in a school uniform working the problem out.
Your child can say the name easily but writing it in Devanagari means getting the matras right, and the pen keeps putting them on the wrong side. After a page of tries the name finally stands there properly, and it looks like it belongs to someone.
Lesson: Your own name is worth writing carefully
The class is split into two teams and given the varnamala chart, and every letter called out has to be matched with an object in the room. Your child gets "ठ" and there is nothing in sight, until the thermos on the teacher’s desk saves the day.
Lesson: Look again before you say there is nothing
Dadi tells a story in Hindi every night, and Your child decides to write one down before it is forgotten. Spelling the words the way they sound turns out to be half right and half wrong, and Dadi fixes each one without laughing once.
Lesson: A story written down outlives the person telling it