Once a fox in the forest wanted to eat a plate of rice and curry. He tricked his way into three village households, in three days, and ate his fill of tasty rice curry. But one day the trick was on him! Hoity the Fox has been published in Japan, Norway, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. This book won the State Literary Award in 2009.

Have you ever wondered how, in the olden days, grandfathers shaved their beards? Well, Sybil Wettasinghe did wonder about that and wrote this charming story of a beard that grew… and grew. Runaway Beard, with its unique story and lovely illustrations, won the 2003 SAARC Award for the Best Designed Children’s Book.

The owl called the pheasant and told them Kirihami had sold the jak tree. The pheasant informed all the other birds and the squirrels about this. ‘Don’t sell our tree’ all of them cried. Down below, Kirihami’s children cried ‘Don’t harm the jak tree.’  But Kirihami had already sold the jak tree…. What happened to Kirihami’s family who lived in the shade of the jak tree?