Aditi's adventures
R. KRITHIKA
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Aditi's journeys have taken her from India to London to the Great Barrier Reef and, in the fifth book, she is off to Vesuvius. An interesting collection of Aditi's escapades.
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Aditi is a princess who is to be given to a dragon, so that it will stop scorching the kingdom. Accompanied by her three friends, the one-eyed monkey (who wants to explore the world), the ant (who wants to measure the world) and the elephant (who wants to find something that will make her angry) Aditi journeys to meet the dragon and finds — not the monster she was expecting but a rather lonely dragon.
Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey was the first of Suniti Namjoshi's Aditi series (the fifth book was released recently). The action is entirely in India but with the second (Aditi and the Thames Dragon) the scene shifts to London where the friends, which now includes the dragon Goldie, are to save the river dragon Opal.
y the third book, Aditi and the Marine Sage, Opal is also in the team and this is set in the Great Barrier Reef; while the events in Aditi and the Techno Sage take place in Canada. The last and most recent sees them take on a giant who is responsible for causing Vesuvius in Italy to erupt.
Those used to the breathless pace of Harry Potter and the like may find the going slow but these books have a charm of their own, an effect to which Shefalee Jain's illustrations add.
The conversation between the friends is very much like everyday talk while the action is described without much hyperbole. These are fun books to introduce the seven-plus age group to reading.
Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey; Aditi and the Thames Dragon; Aditi and the Marine Sage; Aditi and the Techno Sage; Aditi and Friends Take on the Vesuvian Giant; Suniti Namjoshi,
Tulika, Rs. 80 each.
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