* A heartwarming story about books, and what they mean to those who don't have them * Set in Gurez, an isolated village in Kashmir at the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, it softly hints at Partition and conflict * Being a film-writer too, author Adithi Rao has a strong visual sense that pervades her work * Affectionate and stylised pictures by Kashmiri illustrator Ghazal Qadri are flavoured with a sense of the place and the gentle spirit of its people * This is a WORDBIRD BOOK - a Tulika innovation where children are introduced to local words with the help of little birds that hop through the pages and explain the meaning.