Updated On: 28 December, 2025 08:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Debjani Paul
Children today are more precocious than ever in the social media and AI age. Here are five books that can help you step up as a parent

About the Friend in My Heart is a children’s book about kindness. Illustration/Sonal Gupta Vaswani
Quick Read
Children can often have big feelings that they lack the words to express. Dipna Daryanani’s picture book, About the Friend in My Heart (Red Panda, `350), tackles some of these big feelings through the lens of “kindness”. Daryanani, an early years educator, and artist Sonal Gupta Vaswani gently show children what it means to be kind — from feeding a stray puppy, to sharing a tiffin box with a classmate who may not look the same as you. This is a book that can be read with parental supervision, or by the child on their own.
