My Bollywood Dream
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A Bollywood film brings people together—and inspires a little girl’s budding ambition—in a heartfelt and joyful picture book debut from a new talent. It’s Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes. A choreographed dance sequence atop a long line of cars! When they arrive at the screening, the room is abuzz with people from all walks of life, waiting to lose themselves in the show. And finally comes the best part: time for everyone to jump up and dance! First-time author-illustrator Avani Dwivedi offers a buoyant, whimsically illustrated love letter to Mumbai and Bollywood—and to children everywhere eager to take mastery of their dreams.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Each Friday, this book's unnamed protagonist heads with their family to find "dreams and adventures" in a Bollywood movie screen. As old melodies fill the car on their drive to the theater, the child imagines themself filming a police officer jumping across buildings as well as people breaking into dance on the Bandra-Worli Bridge. Finally at the movies, and enjoying snacks of popcorn and samosas, the family soon joins the onscreen hero, and the audience, in moving to the beat of a Bollywood tune—it's "a room of different people, from difference places, living this moment together." Dwivedi's saturated illustrations read as a love letter to "sparkling Mumbai," and details throughout—song lyrics circling characters, visual references to classic films—wink at Bollywood buffs. It's an enjoyable trip to the movies whose affirming ending highlights the way imagination and reality can converge. An author's note concludes. Ages 3–7.
