Mint, Hindustan Times

Coming after the rollicking Living Next Door to Alise about a boy Siddharth and a baby elephant, Magical Indian Myths is pure magic. Children apart, you too could up your mythology quotient. Nair has written another book on a similar subject: The Puffin Book of World...

The Pioneer

Nair spins her tales with finesse, telling the reader how the sun became less fierce, how Bali lost his kingdom, why Ganga came to earth. The...

Asian Age

Nair had recounted each story with such finesse that the characters seem to come alive. Asian...

Parenting

Magical Indian Myths, a collection of 50 myths belonging to Indian culture, knows exactly how to tell a myth, making it an exceptionally successful book in its genre and ‘a must have book’ for your child’s collection. It possesses all the qualities that make myth...

India Today

Fortunate is the child who receives this beautiful book…. The stories are simply told, though never patronizing in tone, and are short enough to be read at one go by the young reader, or to be read aloud to children without taxing the patience of the adult reader or...

The Week

Apart from the efforts of Anant Pai, there hasn’t been much quality literature on Indian myths, written from a child’s viewpoint. Nair has finally filled this lacuna. Her stories are short, and dealt with as simply as possible to present complicated mythological...