Amma, Tell Me About Ganesha! (Amma Tell Me, 7)

I love this book and I was thrilled that there was a chant Ganesha included in the front! What a brilliant way to start telling the story! My only complaint is the graphic pictures (the blood splatters in particular) are a bit frightening to some of my friend's children, but it really is the nature of the story so I'm certainly not dissatisfied. I hope Bhakti Mathur continues to create such beautiful books, sharing Hinduism's wealth of stories and history with the world.

Lovely illustrations and a nice retelling of the story.

Loved it, my son enjoyed it very much. We received it in great condition.

My kids love this book. They love the illustrations as well.

Cute story to read to the little ones. They love it

A lovely and enthralling book once again by Bhakti Mathur on India's arguably most loved and famous Lord Ganesha. No celebration is possible all over the country without his felicitation and this is a endearing attempt to tell the story of how Lord Ganesha got his name and his elephant head. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did with my kids!

Loved the Diwali book by the same author/illustrator, so I couldn't wait to get this book...I can't read it to them! I'm really not sure what Sommani and Bhaktur were thinking! I understand the story intrisincally is about a beheading, but adding dripping blood to the necks and the sword is not just unnecessary it's gratuitous violence. This is a children's book! You should be downplaying the violence and emphasizing the lesson. This book does the opposite. The Ramayan book is pretty bad, too, btw. Do we really need to show dripping blood, (not just blood, dripping!)?? Could not a blunt neck line have gotten the point of the story across without emphasizing the horrible violence of a father slicing off his son's head? I mean, is that what the take away point is? And the exaggerated facial features and extra bold colors which I loved so much in the Diwali book actually emphasize the horror in this book. Too bad. I really like the opening pages and thought the chanted song and illustrations captured the energy of Ganesh Chaturthi well. My boys loved the magical story of a clay boy coming to life on a wish....and then they are horrified. For shame.

Somewhat scary illustrations for my toddler.

Das Buch an sich ist bezaubernd mit wunderschönen Bildern. Ich suchte so etwas für ein Kita-Projekt. Es ist in Englisch, für meine Zwecke wollte ich es übersetzen und dann zu den Bildern erzählen. Aber da es nicht nur erzählt, dass der Vater Shiva seinem Sohn den Kopf abschlägt und später einem Elefanten den Kopf ebenfalls abschlägt, um den Kopf seines Sohnes zu ersetzen - sondern diese Dinge auch im Bild darstellt, mußte ich es zurückschicken.Die Rückabwicklung lief problemlos. Danke!

Amazing book and very informative. My 3 year old daughter love to hear ganesha's story.

The book is very colourful and immediately draws the attention of the child. The illustrations are very well done. Creative work indeed! The quality of paper is very good. I wish the series of Tell Me Amma was available in hard bound and with each page hard thick paper so that it is not easy for the child to tear it and hence can last longer. I also suggest that the packaging be improved.

Lovely pictures and great book. Good for kids.

great way to reinforce indian mythology to nri kids