The children's division of Malayala Manorama is playing a commendable role to facilitate over all development of kids, under the eminent guidance of Professor Yaspal, Scientist and former Chairman, University grants Commission (UGC);Shri.G.Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO and Sri.Sashi Tharoor, author and former Under Secretary General, United Nations.
A Balarama Digest Talent Search is being organised...With more than 3000 schools participating in the talent hunt, its definitely a major event for school goers of our state. More then 4lakh participants have already registered!!!The subject matter for the same is distributed weekly in the form of Balarama Digest- a highly informative module for kids and Balarama Children's magazine.The digest introduces kids to various aspects of science,biographies of world leaders,history,arts,literature, sports,etc.Preliminary rounds are conducted at school level and the final round proposed to be conducted on 7th January,2009 is also anticipated to be telecast, according to their advertisement.
Balarama Digest - a capsule for quizzers
weekly booklet, published in Malayalam;priced at Rs.7 per copy.
The modules published so far covered topics like Story of the telephone,the motor bike;chemicals and pollution,Our Legislature, Magics of the internet, Skyscrapers, Large Hadron Collision, Kings of Kochi Dynasty, National parks of India, wolf,crocodile,trees, biographical sketches of Jhansi Rani, Mao Tse tung,Abraham Lincoln, Visweshwarayya, Vikram Sarabhai, Winston Churchill, Ho Chi Min, Mao Tse tung and so on...
TELL ME WHY???
a knowledge magazine with fascinating facts on a selected topic;published in English and priced at Rs.15 per copy.
To quote their own words: "More than a hundred questions, authentic and informative, yet highly readable, written in a lucid style suitable for children.Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, cartoons etc..."
The topics covered so far include the following: BIRDS, INVENTIONS, OCEANS, WEATHER, ANCIENT WORLD, CRICKET,ANIMALS, PLANTS, TRANSPORTATION, gREAT EVENTS THAT SHAPED WORLD HISTORY, EARTH,COMMUNICATION, INDIAN HISTORY, FESTIVALS, WONDERS OF THE WORLD, GREAT EXPLORERS, 100 GREAT LIVES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, DESERTS, WEAPONS, OLYMPICS, COMPUTER, EGYPTIAN CIVILISATION, 100 GREAT SCIENTISTS, CONTINENTS AND REVOLUTIONS...
KALIKUDUKKA
A popular children's weekly published in malayalam, it includes rhymes, stories-pictorial and otherwise, easily comprehensible and other activities like colouring, drawing, join the dots, show the path and so on...Priced at Rs.9 per copy, children cherish spending time with their parents on this at pre school and kintergarten level. They eagerly wait for the next issue every time...Try out for yourself...The first page on tips to parents lucidly draws out the experiences and doubts of parenting...Many a times it makes us feel, Wah do did Manorama come to know about our domestic affairs!!!!!!!
MAGIC POT
A popular children's fortnightly in English, its similar to Kalikudukka. It can be used as a motivation to facilitate reading by self and improving comprehensive ability of beginners of the English language. It also has the same contents as Kalikudukka.The age of readers is borne in mind in carving out every page of this publication as well. Single copy is priced at Rs.12/-
BALARAMA AMAR CHITRA KATHA
simple stories described wonderfully and published fortnightly, priced at Rs.5 per copy...The name explains it all...
