You’re strong with me : Environmental Children’s Book

The rain clouds are long gone and the dry season scorches the land. Everything is new for the baby giraffe. As she bounds ahead and lags behind, her mother patiently explains the ways of the grasslands. And until she grows a little taller, older and wiser, her mother reminds her: “You’re strong with me.”

This beautiful picture book by Chitra Soundar and illustrated by Poonam Mistry is a wonderful book set in Africa with a mother Giraffe and her baby. This heart-warming tale of parental love is full of reassurance and for young children, a wonderful lyrical book for bedtime. The illustrations are truly stunning – young children will me mesmerised by the geometric patterns in golds, reds and greens and spotting the stylised folklore animals hidden within the pages.

Chitra Soundar is an Indian-born British author and storyteller, who has published more than 30 books inspired by the rich heritage of folktales from India and India's natural beauty.

Author: Chitra Soundar

Illustration: Poonam Mistry

Age: 2+ years

32 pages - Hardback 

Printed on FSC certified paper with non petroleum based inks

Award winning children's book publisher and social enterprise, Lantana Publishing, have a mission to publish inclusive books that are changing the game of publishing, commissioning books that celebrate diversity, equality, and environmental sustainability. In the UK, a third of school children identify as being Black, Asain, or Minority Ethnic (BAME), but yet less than 5% of books are representative of BAME characters. Further to this, less than 2% are authors or book creators represented by British people of colour, even less than this are representative of the LGBTQ+ communities or disabled. Lantana believes that every child deserves to see themselves in the books they read.