Gamebooks, Other Fun Innovation Help Children Learn


"The moment you do something interactive, kids wake up to it," says Ruddra who has also created a sequel "Banana Republic" to his first multiplayer book.

While game books provide a fun way to learning, they and other non conventional books can be used to help sensitize children to people who are different from them, say experts.

According to Priyanka Malhotra, the managing trustee of Nipman Foundation, children at junior school level are still not aware about people with disabilities.

To begin sensitising at junior level, the foundation has come up with an illustrated book for children in the age group of 3 to 6 years.

Under their "Pepper" series of books by Sterling Publishers, the title "Pepper makes a special friend" helps children to understand how to make people with disability feel comfortable and help them out.

"Till class 10 I did not have a single friend because they feared approaching a person with disability. Through this book we are trying to make sure that others don't face what I did and make people realize that a person on a wheel chair can also have a normal social life," says Nipun Malhotra who was born with arthrogryposis, a congenital disorder.

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Source: PTI