What Will You Give Me?

by Nandini Nayar, Francesco Manetti (Illustrator)

Overview

Book 3 in the Curious Sameer Series.

Sameer is bored. Whatever Amma gives him, he exhausts its possibilities in minutes. Can Amma find something to keep Sameer occupied? Find out in Nandini Nayar's warm-hearted tale illustrated with intricate detail and gorgeous textures by Francesco Manetti.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788181902863
Publisher:	Moon Over Mountain
Publication date:	07/15/2014
Series:	Curious Sameer , #3
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 Years

About the Author

Nandini Nayar: Nandini Nayar is a Hyderabad-based children’s writer. She has published several picture books with various publishers. Her work is widely published in India, the USA, and the UK, and has been featured on the lists of the US Board on Books for Young People. She also writes for young adults.
Francesco Manetti: Francesco Manetti spent his childhood in the countryside, surrounded by the colors and fragrances of flowering fields. He has a Masters degree in Graphic Design from the Institute IFOTER. He has also studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.

Editorial Reviews

"A delightful offering that not only promotes imagination, but refreshingly includes Indian characters as well." - Kirkus

From the Publisher

2014-06-04
The third title in the Curious Sameer series from India exalts its protagonist’s imagination in an effort to inspire those of its readers.Like so many children’s-book characters before him, Sameer opens his story suffering from boredom. Amma is quick with a solution, suggesting that she give him a sheet of paper, and he then narrates how he will use it to make a paper boat in which he will sail away. “Then what will you give me?” he asks, anticipating the page turn and also introducing the query that will prompt subsequent offerings of various materials and supplies from his mother. As she provides each one, Sameer imagines the various things he can do with them. Resourceful Amma is not depicted in the painterly, brightly colored illustrations until the final page, after Sameer asks for something that “will sail like the boat” and do all of the things that his other imaginings do, too. “I have just the thing!” she responds, and they cuddle together with a storybook.A delightful offering that not only promotes imagination, but refreshingly includes Indian characters as well. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews