Whispers in the Classroom Voices on the Field: Stories of School, Friends and Life

by Richa Jha (editor)

School! A splendid institution. It tells you about what's around you while helping you explore what lies within. It brings you face-to-face with personal triumphs and failures, victories and defeats, frictions and forgiveness, rivalry and team-work, lifelong friendships and heart-rending partings, and more. School, in short, is a complete life coach. Whispers in the Classroom, Voices on the Fields brings together thirty one of the most sensitive contemporary children's Indian writers with as many school experiences neatly encapsulated between the covers. From the delightful to the mundane, the poignant to the quirky, the thought-provoking to the routine, the questioning to the traditional, the scary to the sublime-we have on spread the many many moods that define school-life for most. Read through for your own 'Hey, that's me in there!' moment.

372 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2014

About the author

Richa Jha is an Indian author, blogger, publisher and picture book enthusiast. She is an independent creator of picture books in English under her PICKLE YOLK BOOKS imprint. Her website SNUGGLE WITH PICTURE BOOKS (http://snugglewithpicturebooks.com/) is the only online platform in India dedicated to picture books. It contains reviews of mostly Indian (but also international) picture books.

She is the author of six picture books and has edited WHISPERS IN THE CLASSROOM, VOICES ON THE FIELD(Wisdom Tree), a bestselling YA anthology of short stories on school life which entered the Limca Book of Records 2013 for being the first book in India to have a song penned especially for it. Her book 'The Susu Pals' was shortlisted for the Raymond Crossword Award 2014 in the children's category and won a third place in the popular RivoKids Parents and Kids Choice Awards 2015. Her latest releases are 'Thatha at School', 'Vee Loved Garlic' and 'Love Like That'.