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Parag Honour List (PHL) is a curated collection of outstanding books in English and Hindi for children and young adults. A recognition by the Parag Initiative of Tata Trusts, PHL is published annually along with brief annotation about each title. The first edition of PHL was launched in 2020 with the latest in June 2024.
Each year, the list is created after careful screening and reviews by an independent jury comprising of experts in the Indian children’s literature sector.
Over the years, PHL has received 1,230 submissions from 76 publishers across India and has featured 225 outstanding original books for early readers, young readers, and young adults across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry genres.
One gap that has been highlighted in recent times is the lack of a comprehensive curated list of good quality children’s books that libraries, teachers, and parents can refer to while procuring children’s books.
PHL aims to fulfil this gap by recognizing a diverse range of quality Indian children’s literature that can be easily referred to. Parag works with the jury, publishers, authors, illustrators, and bookstores to promote the curated list through online and on-ground modalities garnering much-needed limelight and visibility to Indian children’s literature and their creators.
Parag Honour List 2023 brings to you a curated collection of outstanding books in English and Hindi, for children, young readers and young adults.
An initiative of Tata Trusts, the Parag Honour List, published annually, comprises of noteworthy books of the year with brief information about each title. It has been created after careful screening and multiple reviews by experts in the children’s literature sector. The list aims to promote access to good quality children’s literature that librarians, teachers, parents and children can refer to and read.
As per this year’s criteria, we received original writing in the category of early readers, young readers and young adults, in fiction, non-fiction and poetry, from 33 Indian publishers, published between October 2021 and September 2022.
We hope this list will enable a wider readership to some of the best Indian children’s books!
Here is a list of some bookstores and publishers who offer good books for children.
A list of children’s publishers pan India who publish good books for children.
A list of some bookstores across Indian cities where you can find good quality Indian children’s literature.
Parag supports publication of original stories and translations for children across the age group of 3-16 years. The main aim is to provide access to good quality story books for children in Indian languages. A wide range and variety of books have been released through various publishers and we are happy to share an array of new stories for different age groups with you.
A wide variety of books have been published over the last 12 years in multiple Indian languages and across age groups.
The Parag catalogue provides a sneak peak into the books supported since 2005, their central themes and ideas. The books are categorized according to age groups and genres. However, the categorization is suggestive and their most effective usage lies in the hands of readers/story tellers/educators/parents. Books marked for ages 6+ can be read aloud to young children, while Teachers’ Resource books can be read by teens. Books are listed under one category to avoid duplication. This annotated catalogue lists the books published by the Trusts’ partners, under picture books, poems, young readers, activity Books and teachers’ resource books.
Parag Honour List (PHL) is a curated collection of outstanding books in English and Hindi for children and young adults. A recognition by the Parag Initiative of Tata Trusts, PHL is published annually along with brief annotation about each title. The first edition of PHL was launched in 2020 with the latest in June 2024.
Each year, the list is created after careful screening and reviews by an independent jury comprising of experts in the Indian children’s literature sector.
Over the years, PHL has received 1,230 submissions from 76 publishers across India and has featured 225 outstanding original books for early readers, young readers, and young adults across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry genres.
[/content][content class='content-section parag-nurtures no-margin-padding' rowclass='s_content' container='true' container-type=''][row][one-twelve]One gap that has been highlighted in recent times is the lack of a comprehensive curated list of good quality children’s books that libraries, teachers, and parents can refer to while procuring children’s books.
PHL aims to fulfil this gap by recognizing a diverse range of quality Indian children’s literature that can be easily referred to. Parag works with the jury, publishers, authors, illustrators, and bookstores to promote the curated list through online and on-ground modalities garnering much-needed limelight and visibility to Indian children’s literature and their creators.
Parag Honour List (PHL) is a curated collection of outstanding books in English and Hindi for children and young adults. A recognition by the Parag Initiative of Tata Trusts, PHL is published annually along with brief annotation about each title. The first edition of PHL was launched in 2020 with the latest in June 2024.
Each year, the list is created after careful screening and reviews by an independent jury comprising of experts in the Indian children’s literature sector.
Over the years, PHL has received 1,230 submissions from 76 publishers across India and has featured 225 outstanding original books for early readers, young readers, and young adults across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry genres.
[/content][content class='content-section parag-nurtures no-margin-padding' rowclass='s_content' container='true' container-type=''][row][one-twelve]One gap that has been highlighted in recent times is the lack of a comprehensive curated list of good quality children’s books that libraries, teachers, and parents can refer to while procuring children’s books.
PHL aims to fulfil this gap by recognizing a diverse range of quality Indian children’s literature that can be easily referred to. Parag works with the jury, publishers, authors, illustrators, and bookstores to promote the curated list through online and on-ground modalities garnering much-needed limelight and visibility to Indian children’s literature and their creators.
For more than a decade Parag has been working to catalyse the children’s literature sector in India. Parag has supported the publication of 700+ titles in 9 Indian languages reaching more than 40 million readers.
Opening up the world of books to children with disabilities is an important pathway to making literature and society more inclusive
