Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess

I found this to be a gold mine of information about the 9 goddesses celebrated during Navaratri.

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🐅Title: Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess🐅Author: Nalini Ramachandran🐅Illustrations by: Priyanka Pachpande🐅Publisher:Puffin Books🐅Age recommendation: 6 years & above🐅Navaratri(also known as Dusshera) is celebrated with great pomp and festivities across the country. But did you ever wonder what the nine forms of the Goddess are or why certain customs and rituals originated?🐅Nalini Ramachandran's 'Nava Durga: The Nine Forms of the Goddess' is an enlightening and enriching book which dives head-long into the fascinating culture behind Navaratri.🐅The book starts with an introduction to Adi Shakti: the divine source of energy. In keeping with the principle of Advaita, this energy resides in the Goddess and in all of us.🐅We learn about the origin of Goddess Durga and the Nava Durgas: the nine glorious forms of Durga, each of whom embody a powerful quality of the Goddess!🐅Nalini Ramachandran walks us through the various festivities: Sanjhi in Haryana, Jagran in Punjab and other northern states, Durga Puja in the eastern states, Golu and Bathukamma festival in the Southern States! It was fascinating to learn about the various ways that Goddess Durga is worshipped!🐅No festival is complete without a decadent feast!! We learn about the list of mouth-watering delicacies offered to Nava Durga over the nine days(Venn Pongal, singhare ke atte ka halwa, malpua, puri-halwa-chana, puran poli) Yummy!🐅The author's extensively researched book is a wonderful way to introduce your children to Goddess Durga. Woven together with lucid words and brilliant illustrations, this book weaves together a vibrant and rich tapestry as an ode to The Nava Durga!🐅A special mention to the vibrant and stunning illustrations by Priyanka Pachpande which really elevate the words in the book.🐅Go ahead and grab this book during the Navaratri festivities and discover the 'how the Goddess resides in you as Adi Shakti'!!✨ Highly recommend this gem of a book!!

A word of appreciation for writing such a wonderful, easy to understand and yet deep book about one of our most important festivals. My daughter and I have been reading a chapter each day of Navratri and the conversations that follow have been wonderful. As modern parents we struggle to teach our kids about our culture in the same way we were taught. The days of grandparents telling you these stories are long gone, but books like this give me hope that we'll give them the one education we can't afford to miss out on. After all, if we don't pass on our own stories, who will?

It's a very good book for kids 6-9 yr old Even older kids .Nav Durga swaroopa and Ma Shakti are very very nicely described and has lovely illustrations .

Very beautifully narrated for kids:) best book ever. Loved the way how story was said. Beautiful illustrations .. hats off