AdiDev Press has introduced a new picture-book series that celebrates Indian cities through color, movement, and everyday moments—the kind children notice instinctively. The series opens with Adi and Arya Visit Delhi and Adi and Arya Visit Kolkata, two books created especially for toddlers and emerging readers, where illustrations are not decorative additions but the heart of the storytelling.
Written by Chitwan Mittal and illustrated by Asuma Noor, the books invite children to explore cities not through facts or timelines, but through experience. The characters, Adi and Arya, move through streets, food stalls, monuments, sounds, and small encounters that together build a sense of place. Delhi reveals itself through bustling roads, familiar foods, and grand structures that quietly sit alongside daily life. Kolkata unfolds through trams, rickshaws, river rides on the Hooghly, music, poetry, and the city’s unmistakable rhythm.
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