Resilience with Bhakti Sharma

• Simple text written in verse with vibrant art 
• A historical timeline that puts the story into context
• Accompanied by downloadable activity sheets that extend learning

Prerana Roy is a visual artist, illustrator and architect. She enjoys reading in between lines of conversations and daily activities to develop an expressive narrative for her art and observe little things and details in human emotions. She also enjoys sleep and chocolate!

Pervin Saket is a novelist and poet whose work has been featured in several journals and magazines. She was a 2024 writer-in-residence and a 2025 Obermann International Fellow at the University of Iowa. She has served as the Literature Curator for the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, India's largest multidisciplinary street arts festival. She was awarded the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2021, and she was the inaugural Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive 2021. Her work has been a finalist for the Tiferet Poetry Prize, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize. Pervin is the Editor-at-Large at The Bombay Literary Magazine. 

The Learning TO BE series features biographies about Indian pioneers and achievers whose stories continue to inspire us today. Each book in the series features an important value and can be read aloud to toddlers and preschoolers (2–4 year olds) or read independently by emerging readers (4–7 year olds). 

"These books look extraordinary. I love the rhymes and drawings." ~ Bhakti Sharma, open water swimmer

“An inspiring and motivational book that encourages perseverance and hard work.” ~ Parent testimonial