At home with Holmes I had parents who were interested in reading to me. My parents grew up in a very different place than me. They grew up in Kashmir, and they had different reading materials. They had fiction that was written in Hindi and in Kashmiri, but they had access to very few English novels or at least novels that were translated from English to Kashmiri or to Hindi.
It was a continuation of his love for Sherlock Holmes. He used to read them aloud to me when I was young. When my parents moved to England, where I was born in London in the late 1970s, they brought that back with them. Sherlock Holmes,
2021 Spring Preview: Kids’ books
This season’s books for children – from babies to teens – feature big-name authors and illustrators, anticipated debuts, and a fluffle of bunnies.
PICTURE BOOKS
The Rock from the Sky
Jon Klassen
Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House Canada, April
Jon Klassen is back – not that he really went away. It’s just that it’s been four years since he released his last solo work, the final book in his bestselling Hat trilogy. (
This Is Not My Hat was the first book to receive both the Caldecott and the Kate Greenaway medals.) Since then, he’s only done collaborations, illustrating books with his friend and author Mac Barnett among others. Recent standouts include the chapter book
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