May 21, 2024 - Anastasia Suen

A Kurta to Remember (Own Voices, Own Stories)
by Gauri Dalvi Pandya (Author) and Avani Dwivedi (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Tomorrow is moving day and one little girl worries about moving so far, far away from her Aaji and Ajoba. But Aaji gifts her with a handmade kurta. A kurta with two big pockets for holding all the small things that will remind the girl of her grandparents–from the mogra flowers in Aaji’s hair to Ajoba’s diya. Then the girl has an even better idea and helps Aaji make two more kurtas with pockets she can fill to remind her grandparents of her too. When finally they are on other sides of a big ocean, they put on their kurtas–and do not feel so far, far away from one another.

Snippet:
Tomorrow is moving day.

To a new home.
To a new country.
Far, far away
from Aaji and Ajoba.