Let us join hands to make the World SWEETER 1 story at a time…
Why I write books…
It was a frigid January afternoon, with half a foot of snow covering the roads, yards, and chimneys like a cozy white blanket freshly minted from the dryer. My six-year-old was restless to go outside and step on it. Then make some snowballs to attack me, sled down a slope in our backyard and most importantly make a snowman. On the other hand, I wanted to buy some time to all this and shovel the snow off the driveway, so I tried to distract my little one by asking about Santa’s whereabouts.
Me: What do you think Santa is doing right now?
D: He must be hibernating.
Me: What makes you think that?
D: Why else would he eat so many cookies and drink all that milk? And grow such a BIG belly?! He must be preparing for a long sleep. He is definitely hibernating…
Then, when he wakes up, he will be hungry, and that is why he comes down the chimney to eat all the cookies again! The dude loves sweets like me.
Me: Wow! How come I didn’t know he did all that? Next time it’s apples for him. No cookies.
It is for such priceless discussions with kids that I write picture books. I draw a great deal of inspiration from them.
“Let us join hands to make the world SWEETER one story at a time,” Anita Narayan
Hi, I am Anita Narayan, author and illustrator of the ‘Play with Math’, picture book series. I also created a fun STEAM course for kids ages 5-10 years, who love story-based STEAM learning!
I am homeschooling mom with over a decade of experience with project based learning focused on STEM. I wear different hats as I continue to grow as a person. I have enjoyed working in several STEM fields ranging from Healthcare, Software Development and Banking. I am also a certified Yoga teacher, a Pranic Healer and pollinator gardening enthusiast. I enjoy my time growing a tiny food forest in my backyard in PA with my boys and my sassy black cat.
What do kids really need from us?
Kids are a fountain of innate wisdom, a natural gift of their unconditioned mind. They lead with their heart, and our part in their beautiful life is to keenly observe what ignites their curiosity, and excites their hands, and then nurture it with utmost sincerity.
The village
The child is the GLUE. The child, that learns new things with a teacher who ignites knowledge through lively lessons and activities; a librarian who kindles their curiosity with engaging books; authors and illustrators that breathe life into the child’s imagination; the parent, the grandparent, the aunt, the uncle, the neighbor who shows them the joy in creating beauitful things are all in turn nourished, in life long learning by the child; who collects them all together like precious pebbles from a fresh murmuring stream.