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Backdrop: In 1989-90 one wonderful idea came in the minds of Raju and Deepti. “Let’s Give One Hour of Joy to 1,00,000 Children in One Year”! It was not just wishful thinking. We edited 20 paged cyclostyled note containing host of activities like fun tricks, songs, riddles, traditional and Japanese Origami, jokes, paper craft, toys making, shadowgraph, Interesting facts, Chinese game tangram, indoor/outdoor games, simple science experiments, light entertaining exercises and what not! Then we trained about 500 College (of Gram Vidyapith’s, B.Ed.’s and P.T.C.’s) and High School (Post Basic – Utter Buniadi) students of different institutes of Gujarat. In the groups they went to nearby villages and covered 1,00,000 children of about 1000 villages!

Then “Sadvichar Parivar” published it in the form of special issue of “BalkoNu Chapun” in May-June 1991 having circulation of 13,000 copies. Getting celebrated response and further demand from all quarter of Gujarat 12,000 copies of it was reprinted in the booklet form.

And then material started expanding to materialize series of booklets on various themes.

“Shikshak Saathi PustakMala” Teacher’s Companion Series:-

“GeetoBharyun Jivan” Life full of Songs “KhadhuPidhu ane Raj Karun” - And they happily lived after! “Ramatotsav” Festival of Games “Chat Saval, Pat Javab” Riddles and Puzzles “Pravrutti No Anand” Joy of Activities, Art and Craft “Hasine Halava Rahie” Let’s Laugh and be Light “Prakruti Ni Godma” In the lap of the Nature “Khul Ja SimSim” Learn Magic Yourself “Bal Adhikar Mahotsav” Child Rights Festival “Be Pankhala Jeeva” Two winged Creatures	“GeetoBharyun Jivan” Life full of Songs: That who wants to sing finds the song! We all need few songs - some for chorus, some in bathroom, some inspiring to come out from sorrow, some to express feelings, some for fun, some for prayer and some for action! Teachers will find 68 Selected Children’s Songs of various types in this booklet.
	“KhadhuPidhu ane Raj Karun” - And they happily lived after! Who will not love stories! This booklet contains many inspiring and entertaining stories for children. Tips for story telling and dramatization of the stories with creative drama exercises are also given in the book so that you can create “Children’s Theater” in your school!
	“Ramatotsav” Festival of Games: You will definitely find treasure of indoor and out door, fun and philosophical, traditional seasonal and foreign, competitive and cooperative, intelligent and stunt games in this book. Book also contains pyramids and light exercises; Yogasans, SuryaNamashkar and Prayanams and simple meditation technique for children.
	“Chat Saval, Pat Javab” Riddles and Puzzles: In every culture you will find fun questions or descriptive riddles. People simply love to ask and answer such riddles because it helps us to think creatively - out of box. In some riddles answer is hidden or some riddles are to make you fool. Just inspire children to ask riddles and see what happens!
	“Pravrutti No Anand” Joy of Activities, Art and Craft: Hands doing creative work do not throw stones to anybody! Basically human being is a “Creative Animal”. We can help children to develop skill and aesthetic sense by various art and craft activities. You will find tips for simple activities, paper craft, shadowgraph, clay molding, toy making, card making, collage etc. here.
	“Hasine Halava Rahie” Let’s Laugh and be Light: “No man is completely dressed unless he wears a Smile” said Gandhi. Laughter is the best medicine. In this book child friendly jokes and cartoons are given. Encourage them to tell jocks so that they know the power of spoken words. Start your day in school with a joke and see the difference yourself.
	“Prakruti Ni Godma” In the lap of the Nature: It was written in one exhibition that - to see most dangerous animal of the world - lift the curtain. Mirrors do not tell lies! Nature’s Bounty + Human Intelligence = Paradise. In nature we feel peace and organic growth. This book is specially designed to make children sensitive towards nature.

	Booklets one to seven are also published by well-known “Navbharat Prakashan Mandir” with colored titles. Jeevantirth publications are low-cost editions with plain titles. Matter is same.

	“Khul Ja SimSim” Learn Magic Yourself: This book is written by senior most member of Jeevantirth, Babukaka who devoted his whole life for the children. You can see the spark in the eyes of children by just uttering the word MAGIC. Simple tricks and law of science can do wonderful magic. Reveal the trick to dispel myth of magic only if they do not find it themselves.
	“Bal Adhikar Mahotsav” Child Rights Festival: This is the child friendly version, written in lucid poetry forms about different child rights passed in the United Nation’s Convention on Child Rights in 1989. This ‘Save the Children UK’ sponsored book was released by famous danseuse and wife of great scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Ms. Mrunalini Sarabhai. Audio CD is also available.
	“Be Pankhala Jeeva” Two winged Creatures: A unique book on bird life. On one side you will find beautifully explained line sketches and on the opposite side you will find narrations of different aspects of the bird life with stanza of appropriate poetry. The book was so acclaimed that it was reprinted by one educational magazine as a special issue. You will fell to fly.

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