Usha Mukunda is a passionate advocate of conversations around books with children and young adults. She has been happily engaged in such interactions for 35 years. She is also deeply interested in learning about, and sharing the nuances of good literature for children. Usha is a well-known children’s librarian who has set up and run many school libraries. She is founding faculty of Parag’s Library Educators Course. Her greatest wish is to enable discernment of good books in herself, and in readers wherever they may abide.