Suitabook
I Am Not Afraid!
Mini Shrinivasan
Credits & Licence
Originally published by Pratham Books.
Brought to you by Let’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific. To read more books like this and get further information about this book, visit: letsreadasia.org. 12 Original Story I Am Not Afraid!. Author: Mini Shrinivasan. Illustrator: Rayika Sen. Published by Pratham Books, © Pratham Books . Released under CC-BY-4.0. This work is a modified version of the original story. © The Asia Foundation, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC-BY-4.0. For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Signer: Sobita Paudel.
author: Mini Shrinivasan. illustrator: Rayika Sen. publisher: Pratham Books.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on Let’s Read: I Am Not Afraid! (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause before each reveal and invite your child to notice what the girl can see or hear. If the dark pictures feel unsettling, look ahead together or take the story at their pace.
- Themes
- Fear and confidence: The girl announces that she is going out alone and insists she is not scared, while her expressions and cautious attention to sounds and shapes suggest unease. The story places her confident words beside visual signs of apprehension, but does not explain whether she truly feels unafraid or is trying to reassure herself.
- Worth knowing
- Dark, densely patterned scenes, an unexplained noise and partly obscured shapes create a brief sense of suspense. The story resolves these uncertainties as ordinary things or family members.