ANNEXURE 1

CBSE - List of suggested books for Classes 1-12 (English)

Classes 1 and 2

Title Author Illustrator Publisher

1. Alphabet Books AWIC Jagdish Joshi AWIC
(in 8 Indian Languages)
2. Balloons for Me Navin Menon VikyArya CBT
3. Barber at the Zoo Pratibha Nath Jagdish Joshi CBT
4. Mother is Mother (Book Therapy) Shankar Pulak Biswas CBT
5. My Garden Sigrun Srivastava Pulak Biswas CBT
6. My Fish and I Kalyani Rajan P.Gayen CBT
7. My Wall Minnie Swami Jagdish Joshi CBT
8. Time to Rhyme Alaka Shankar Jagdish Joshi CBT
9. The Woman and the Crow Shankar Subir Roy CBT
10. Counting Clouds Santhini Govindan Saurabh Pandey CBT
11. The Weather and I Devika Rangachari Ankur Mitra CBT
12. Chitku Surekha Panandiker Mrinal Mitra CBT
13. Sonali’s Friend Alaka Shankar Jagdish Joshi CBT
14. Animal Fair Sharmila Kantha Ajanta CBT
Guhathakurta
15. Mahagiri (Book Therapy) Hemlata Pulak Biswas CBT
16. So Can I Nilima Sinha Geeta Wadhera CBT
17. The Singing Donkey Shankar Shankar CBT
18. Kachru Rabbit Vinita Krishna Sangeeta Bapto CBT
19. A Present for Papa Sharmila Kantha Saurabh Pandey CBT
20. Wedding Clothes Asha Nehemiah Prithvishwar CBT
Gayen
21. Ten Shefalee Jain Geeta Wadhera Tulika
22. Pranav’s Picture Nandini Nayar Vishwajyoti Tulika
Ghosh
23. What Shall I Make? (US BBY Nandini Nayar Proiti Roy Tulika
Outstanding International
Book)
24. Th—Th—Bouncing Ball Jacob S Muttada Ashok Tulika
Rajagopalan
25. The Why Why Girl Mahasweta Devi Kanyika Kini Tulika
26. I’m So Sleepy Radhika Chadha Priya Kurien Tulika
27. Brahma’s Butterfly Meena Ragunathan ---------- Tulika
28. Same and Different Manjula Manjula Tulika
Padmanabham Padmanabham
29. Malini’s Silver Anklets Annie Besant Nancy Raj Tulika
30. Musical Donkey Niveditha Namrata Rai Tulika
Subramaniam
31. A Silly Story of Bondapalli Shamin Padamsee Ashok Tulika
Rajagopalan
32. The Seed (Bilingual) Deepa Balsavar Ashok Tulika
Rajagopalan
33. Dosa SandhyaRao Ashok Rajgopalan Tulika
34. Malli Jeeva Raghunath Nancy Raj Tulika
35. The Rooster and the Sun Meren Imchen Nancy Raj Tulika
36. Avneet Aunty’s Mobile Phone Kavita Singh Kale Nancy Raj Tulika
37. Norbu’s New Shoes Chewang Dorje Nancy Raj Tulika
Bhutia
38. That’s How I See Things (IBBY Sirish Rao Bhajju Shyam Tulika
Honour List)
39. The Lion and the Fox Deepa Balsawar Amrita Kanther Tulika
Panchatantra (Bilingual)
40. The Talkative Tortoise Jeeva Raghunath Shailja Jain Tulika
41. Mr. Jeejee bhai and the Birds Anita Balachandran Anita Young Zubaan
Balachandran
42. Minu and Pussy Girija Rani Asthana Suddhasattwa Ratna Sagar
Basu
43. Lalu Peelu Vinita Krishna Reboti Bhushan Ratna Sagar
44. Hira Manorama Jafa Jagdish Joshi Ratna Sagar
45. Tree Growers Manorama Jafa Mrinal Mitra Ratna Sagar
46. Moon, Ramu and I Geeta Dharmarajan Harshwardhan Katha
47. Bioscope (IBBY Honour List) Mamta Naini Shanti Devi Katha
48. Days with Thathu Geeta Dharmarajan Nancy Raj Katha
49. Mai and her Friends Durga Bai Durga Bai Katha

50. The Fat Caterpillar series Nita Berry Atanu Roy Frank
(Nature Stories) Educational
Aids
51. Tiger Call Manorama Jafa Ajanta Khaas Kitaab
(IBBY Honour) Guhathakurta
52. The Ladybird and the Butterfly Manorama Jafa Sanjay Sarkar Khaas Kitaab
53. Madam Billo Manorama Jafa Suvidha Mistry Khaas Kitaab
54. The Cookie Wookie Story Vinita Krishna Suvidha Mistry Khaas Kitaab
55. The Butterfly that Sat on a Vinita Krishna Sudha Chowdhri Khaas Kitaab
Rainbow
56. Alu, Malu,Kalu Vinita Krishna Suvidha Mistry Pratham
57. Lenny and Tweek –Wanted: A Klaus Baumgart Klaus Baumgart Pratham
Friend(Book Therapy)
58. Too Many Bananas Noni Angie and Upesh Pratham
59. TopsyTurvey Noni Angie and Upesh Pratham
60. The Butterfly and the Spider Indira Bagchi Neeta Sasta Sahitya
Gangopadhyay Mandal
61. Panna Ira Saxena Jagdish Joshi Radical Books
62. Gabbu’s Trunk Ira Saxena Jagdish Joshi Radical Books
63. A Happy Sunday Debasish Deb ---------- NBT
64. A Story about Water Ravi Paranjape ---------- NBT
65. Bubu – Bulbuli’s Garden Santanoo Tamuli Durlabh NBT
Bhattacharjee
66. We Indians Mehroo J Wadia Mehroo J Wadia NBT

67. The Coming of Wheels Anup Ray ---------- NBT

68. Tails Hydrose Aaluwa Atanu Roy NBT
69. The Flower and the Bee Ashok Davar ---------- NBT
70. A House of Bamboo Neera Jain ---------- NBT
71. A Tale of Two Dogs Dipak Praharaj Arya Praharaj NBT
72. I Like the World Jayanthi Manokaran ---------- NBT
73. Lalu and the Red Kite Ashish Sengupta ---------- NBT
74. How Munia Found Gold Jagdish Joshi Jagdish Joshi NBT
75. One Day Jagdish Joshi Jagdish Joshi NBT
 76. The Sun and the Moon Varsha Das Jagdish Joshi NBT
77. Mango’s Top Kamakshi Amitava NBT
Balasubramaniam Sengupta
78. Joy in the Jungle Santanoo Tamuly Durlabh NBT
Bhattacharjee
79. Silly Dilly Kunti Ramdat Anitha Scholastic
Balkaran Balachandran India

Classes 3 and 4

80 Ritu’s Letter gets Longer Mala Kumar Hemu CBT

81 The Story of Louis Braille Manimala Das Ankur Mitra CBT
(Book Therapy)
82 A Story of Bacterial Reeta Subramaniam Sanjay Sarkar CBT
Invasion Mani
83 The Raja’s Moustache Asha Nehemiah B.G. Varma CBT

84 The Runaway Wheel Asha Nehemiah Subir Roy CBT

85 Grandma’s Sari Asha Nehemiah Subir Roy CBT
86 Four Forest Friends and Suvir Kaul Bindia Thapar Scholastic India
other Panchatantra Tales
(Book Therapy)
87 Neha’s Alarm Clock Girija Rani Asthana Sujasha Das Gupta Scholastic India
88 Little Old Woman Margaret Bhatty Debabrata Sarkar NBT
89 Alamchu’s Appetite Jaya Paramsivam Atanu Roy NBT
90 Neha, My Sister Madhu B. Joshi Partha Sengupta NBT
91 A Bond of Love Pushpa Saxena Partha Sengupta NBT
92 Matsya Santha Rameshwar Sigrun Srivastava NBT
Rao
93 Tyltyl’s Adventure Swapna Dutta VikyArya NBT
94 Some Street Games of Mulk Raj Anand Badri Narayan NBT
India
95 Our Useful Plants K S Sekharan --------- NBT
96 Once in a Village H C Madan Nina Bahl NBT
97 Sunflower and Jeyanthi Sujasha Dasgupta NBT
Butterflies Manaokaran
98 The Mango Tree Deepa Agarwal Subir Roy NBT
99 Guess Who? Geeta Children’s Lab Katha
Dharmarajan
100 The Elephant in the Mallika Children’s Lab Katha
Tree Nagarajan
101
102 Samira’s Awful Lunch Bharti Preeti Pratham
Jagannathan Krishhnamurthy
103 Room in Your Heart Kunzang Pema Tshering Penguin
Tshering Puffin
104 Panna Kamla Das Piya Ahuja Penguin
Puffin
105 A Clear Blue Sky Different authors --------- Penguin
(Book Therapy) Puffin
106 Living Next Door to Anita Nair --------- Penguin
Alise Puffin
107 The Cherry Tree Ruskin Bond --------- Frank Bros.
 108 Folk Tales(Book Anurag Mehta Anita Kapoor Nita Mehta
Therapy) Publications
Division
109 The Farmer and the Vaneeta Vaid --------- Nita Mehta
Flying Elephant Publications
110 Ismat’s Eid Fawzia Gidani Proiti Roy Tulika
Williams
111 Sorry, Best Friend Githa Hariharan, Ranjan De Tulika
(Book Therapy) Shyama
Futehally
112 In Bon Bibi’s Forest Sandhya Rao Proiti Roy Tulika
113 The Chocolate Santhini Debasish Deb Madhuban
Mountain Govindan Ed. Books
114 Once Upon a Time Nilima Jha Debasish Deb Madhuban
(Folktales – Book Ed. Books
Therapy)
115 There’s Another Way Different Authors Tapas Guha Madhuban
(Book Therapy) Ed. Books
116 The Great Lottery Different Authors Pushp Katju Madhuban
Scandal and Other Ed. Books
Stories
117 Caught Red-handed Kamlesh Vishwajyoti Ghosh Madhuban
Mohindra Ed. Books

Class 5

118 Bulliand the Tiger Shalini Ray Nankusia Shyam Pratham

119 Narmada (Non fiction) Vidya Shah Parthiv Shah Pratham
120 Forever Friends Feisal Alkazi Neeta Gangopadhyaya Pratham
121 Jungle Brew Tanya Luther King Sanjay Sarkar Pratham
122 Asian Splendour Hema Pande Dipto N. Chatterjee Pratham
(Folktales From Asia –
Book Therapy)
123 The Fried Frog (Poetry) Sampurna Priya Kurian Scholastic
Chatterji
124 Gandhi (Non fiction - Lushin Dubey Priya Kurian Scholastic
Book Therapy)
125 At least a Fish Anushka S.S. Suleman Scholastic
Ravishankar
126 Write Right (Non fiction) Deepa Agarwal -------- Scholastic
127 The Comic Capers of Anupa Lal -------- Scholastic
Sheikh Chilli
128 A Boy and His Dream Vinita Krishna -------- Scholastic
Birds From My Ranjeet Lall -------- Scholastic
Window(Non fiction)
129 Monuments of India Mrinalini Partha Sengupta Scholastic
(Non fiction) Venkateswaran
130 Treasury of Indian Different authors Suddhasattwa Basu Frank Educational
Folklore (Book Therapy) Aids

131 In Deep Space and Jaya Paramasivan Suddhasattwa Basu Frank Educational
Other Stories (Science Aids
 Fiction)
132 Birbal the Gem Vatsala Kaul Chandu Dah Frank Educational
Aids
133 Walk the Grasslands Nima Manjrekar, Maya Ramaswami Katha
With Takuri NanditaHazarika
(Nonfiction)
Lighthouse in the Storm Different authors Jagdish Joshi AWIC, Ponytale
(Book Therapy) Books
134 Dinosaurs in My Garden Different authors -------- Ratna Sagar
135 The Enchanted Asha Hanley Preeti Roy Tulika
Saarang(Folktales from
Kashmir – Book
Therapy)
136 Stitching Stories (Non- Nina Sabnani -------- Tulika
fiction)
137 Justa Train Ride Away Mini Shrinivasan --------- Tulika
138 One World Different authors Bindia Thapar Tulika
139 The Road to Peace AWIC authors Subir Roy Radical Books
(Book Therapy)
140 Our Leader Series Different authors Different illustrators CBT
(Book Therapy)
141 The Banyan Tree Different authors Saurabh Pandey CBT
142 Schooldays Different authors Ankur Mitra CBT
143 The Guardian of Gunrock Different authors Subir Roy CBT
144 The Tooth Fairy and Different authors Sanjay Sarkar CBT
Other Stories
145 15 Sport Stories Different authors Sanjay Sarkar CBT
146 Folk Tales Retold (Book Shankar Shankar and others CBT
Therapy)
147 5 Mystery Stories Nilima Sinha Subir Roy CBT
148 Adventure Stories Arup Kumar Dutta Different illustrators CBT
149 Our Guest Comet Dipu Dilip Salwi Surendra Suman CBT
150 Nivedita’s New Home Indira -------- Publications
and Other Stories Ananthakrishnan Division
151 The Magic Drum and Sudha Murty -------- Penguin Puffin
Other Stories
152 Mulla Nasruddin Sampurna -------- Penguin Puffin
Chatterjee
153 The Bird with Golden Sudha Murty Ajanta Guhathakurta Penguin Puffin
Wings (Book Therapy)
154 Rintu and his Compass Abhijit Sengupta Judagit Sengupta NBT
155 Waiting for the Rain Kamakshi Yusuf NBT
Balasubramanian Bangalorewala
156 M for Mystery AWIC authors Ratna Sagar
157 Search for the Sacred Nilima Sinha -------- Ponytale Books
Gem (Book Therapy)
158 A Golden Harvest: Different Authors Tapas Guha Madhuban Ed.
Fables, Books
Myths…(Folktales –
Book Therapy)
159 Tiger! Tiger! Stories of Pratibha Nath Subir Roy Madhuban Ed.
the Great Big Outdoors Books
160 A Mythological Mosaic Thangam Krishnan Jagdish Joshi Madhuban Ed.
(Book Therapy) Books
161 Gandhi for the Different authors -------- Sultan Chand
Millennium Child (Book
Therapy)
162 Once Upon a Time in Different Authors Different illustrators Macmillan
India (Book Therapy)

Classes 6 and 7

163 Kabir the Weaver – Jaya Madhavan - Tulika

Poet (Book Therapy)

164 Lighthouse in the Storm AWIC authors Jagdish Joshi AWIC/Ponytale

(Book Therapy)
165 Search for the Sacred Nilima Sinha - Ponytale Books
Gem (Book Therapy)

Class 8

166 My Brother Tootoo Urmila Mahajan - Tulika

167 Mayil Will not be Quiet Nivedita Nivedita Subramaniam Tulika

Subramaniam,
Somya Rajendran

Classes 9 & 10

168 Confessions of a List Meenakshi Reddy - Scholastic

Maniac Madhavan
(Book Therapy)

169 Faces in the Water - Puffin

Ranjit Lal

170 Summer of Cool Suchitra - Puffin

(Book Therapy) Krishnamoorthi

Classes 11 and 12

171 The Grasshopper’s Run Siddhartha Sarma - Scholastic

172 Tiya (Book Therapy) Samarpanand Tara Goswami Harper Collins

173 Terror on the Titanic Sumit Basu - Scholastic