Sari Games

A delightful story of how three Indian children pass a wet day by making Mum's sari into props for various games. I liked the integrity of the book; these children are not, as so often, just coloured-in whites. The family is warmly and entertainingly portrayed and the ingenious uses to which the sari is put should give a new lease of life not only to saris, but to old table-cloths, curtains and sheets as well! I was especially intrigued by the mix, for our children, of the familiar (books shown in the illustrations included Frog and Toad, Where's Spot? and other old friends) and the unfamiliar (sweet and savoury sakkar, paras and mango juice). This gave an extra dimension to an already successful book.