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 Book of the Month: February 2024
(For Pre Primary Level - Chicklets to Cygnets)

Title of the Book: Rainy days for rabbit

Author of the Book: Kuntie ramdat balkaran
Publisher of the Book: Scholastic
Why this Book? This delightfully illustrated story makes it fun for
young children to learn about the water cycle.
Book Review: The sun is hot. The fields are brown. The farmer's
garden is bare and the pond is dry. Turtle, Duck and Frog cannot
wait for the rains to come, but not Little Rabbit. He hates rain. What
will happen when the weather changes?
• The book can be accessed/purchased from:
• CIS Library
• https://www.amazon.in/Rainy-Days-Rabbit-Learn-
Weather/dp/9351030423

Book of the Month: February 2024

(For Primary Level - Grade 1 to Grade 2)

• Title of the Book: Grandad's cake and grandad's pot

• Author of the Book: Lou Treleaven
• Publisher of the Book: Scholastic
• Why this Book? The maverick readers are a great way to start
your child’s reading journey.
• Book Review: Granddad wants to bake a cake. But mum must not
see it. There is not a lot in GRANDAD’S pot. Let’s see what we can
plant. Maverick early readers are a bright, attractive range of
leveled books covering 10 levels, from the pink to white bands.
The colour banding system allows an emerging reader to track
their progression through the reading levels and develop their
reading skills.
• The book can be accessed/purchased from:
• CIS Library
• https://www.amazon.in/Grandads-Cake-Early-Reader-
Readers/dp/1848863519
 Book of the Month: February 2024
(For Middle Level - Grade 3 to Grade 5)

• Title of the Book: Grandma tales

• Author of the Book: Lalita Iyer
• Publisher of the Book: Scholastic
• Why this Book? This book inculcates the reading habits in
readers. Young readers will love the absurdity of sharing
grandma’s storytelling.
• Book Review: Grandmothers are a treasure! This book is a funny
and heart-warming collection of stories about grandmas and
their storytelling.
• The book can be accessed/purchased from:
• CIS Library
• https://www.amazon.in/Grandma-Tales-Lalita-
Iyer/dp/9352751655

Book of the Month: February 2024

(For Middle Level - Grade 6 to Grade 9)

• Title of the Book: The hidden pool

• Author of the Book: Ruskin bond
• Publisher of the Book: Puffin Books
• Why this Book? Ruskin Bond's first novel for children in a whole
new look! This newly illustrated edition of Bond’s magical tale
of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another
generation of readers.
• Book Review: Laurie, an English boy in a small hill town in India,
strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anil, the son of a local
cloth merchant, and Kamal, an orphan who sells buttons and
shoelaces but dreams of going to college. One day the three
discover a secret pool on the mountainside, and it is there that
they plan their greatest escapade yet—a trek to the Pindari
Glacier, where no one from their town has gone before.
• The book can be accessed/purchased from:
• https://www.amazon.in/Hidden-Pool-Ruskin-
Bond/dp/0143333925
• CIS Library
 Book of the Month: February 2024
(For Senior Secondary Level - Grade 10 to Grade 12)

• Title of the Book: The power of your subconscious mind

• Author of the Book: Dr. Joseph Murphy
• Publisher of the Book: Empty canvas publisher
• Why this Book? This book can bring to your notice the innate
power that the sub-conscious holds. We have some traits which
seem like habits, but in reality these are those traits which are
directly controlled by the sub-conscious mind, vis-à-vis your
habits or your routine can be changed if you can control and
direct your sub-conscious mind positively. To be able to control
this 'mind power' and use it to improve the quality of your life is
no walk in the park. This is where this book acts as a guide and
allows you to decipher the depths of the sub-conscious.
• Book Review: In this book, 'The power of your subconscious
mind', the author fuses his spiritual wisdom and scientific
research to bring to light how the sub-conscious mind can be a
major influence on our daily lives. Once you understand your
subconscious mind, you can also control or get rid of the various
phobias that you may have in turn opening a brand new world of
positive energy.
• The book can be accessed/purchased from:
• CIS Library
• https://www.amazon.in/Power-your-Subconscious-
Mind/dp/8192910962

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 Author of The Month -
Joseph Denis Murphy

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Born : 20 May 1898, Ballydehob, Ireland
Died : 16 December 1981, Laguna Hills,
California, United States
Spouse : Jean Murphy (m. 1976–1981)
Parents : Ellen Murphy, Denis Murphy

Early life
Joseph Denis Murphy (May 20, 1898 – December 16, 1981) was an Irish author and
New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science. Murphy was
born in Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland, the son of a private boys' school headmaster
and raised a Roman Catholic. He joined the Jesuits. Murphy was enrolled in the
National School and was encouraged to study for the priesthood and was accepted as
a Jesuit seminarian
Career
Murphy traveled to India and spent a lot of time with Indian sages, learning Hindu
philosophy. He later on formed a new church in America with Hindu ideologies.

In the mid-1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder
Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946,
thereafter teaching at Rochester, New York, and later at the Institute of Religious
Science in Los Angeles. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin
Gregg led to him being re ordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of
the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest
New Thought congregations in the country.

Murphy was a proponent of the New Thought movement. This movement was
developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by many philosophers and deep
thinkers who studied this phenomenon and preached, wrote, and practiced a new way
of looking at life and obtaining desires.
Images of a few books written by Joseph Denis Murphy

Sources: en.wikipedia.org, www.amazon.in, www.goodreads.com&www.google.com

Disclaimer: The issuance of above-mentioned Books are subject to availability of the same.