16. My Dadima wears a sari

Sheth, Kashmira & Jaeggi, Yoshiko (illustrator). My Dadima wears a sari. Atlanta : Peachtree, 2007.



  Title:  My Dadima wears a sari
  Author:  Kashmira Sheth
  Publisher:  Peachtree
  Year of publish: 2007
  Audience: Aged 5+
  Subject: Asian People, Places & Cultures

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Annotation: The book has won “Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008” .
It is about two American born Indian girl Rupas and Rupa are curious her grandma Dadima, who always wear her tradition dress – Sari without other alternatives. The story was depicted through the conversations between Dadima and her two granddaughters. In the story Dadima showed her different sari and explained to the girl the histories and the uses of a sari. There were Hindu words among their conversations. At the end of the book, there was an instruction how to wear sari. It is a fast paced story. The soft tone watercolour illustrations showed delicacy. Every page sari were illustrated differently. It is a great book to introduce Indian culture and tradition to children aged 5 and up.