Ubharta Kalakar · the A–Z book
Not a colouring book. A hunt you do together: four things are hiding in every letter, a grown-up reads them out, and the child finds them, colours them and says them.
One letter per page, 26 pages plus covers. The artwork gets big — about two-thirds of the page — because small hands need big shapes to colour, and because the hunt only works if the hiding places are visible.
Grown-up: read the four words out loud. Then ask for one more “A” thing in this room.
Layout only — your own letter A drops straight in here.
1 2 3 4 5The letter, big and smallBoth shapes, plus the sound. Children meet “A” as a capital in school and “a” everywhere else, so show both from day one.
Your doodle letterEnlarged to fill the page. Four objects woven into the letter, drawn at a size a five-year-old can actually colour inside.
Four tick boxesThe same four slots on every page. Ticking is the reward, and it shows a parent at a glance how far the child got.
One line for the grown-upThirty seconds of an adult's attention per page. That line is the “together”, and it's what makes parents rate the book.
One hidden DoodlingThe same tiny character hides on all 26 pages. A hunt that runs through the whole book keeps kids coming back and gives your mascot 26 appearances.
Title, doodle, four boxes, one grown-up line. Nothing moves.
Pre-readers learn the pattern in two pages and then run the book themselves.
Of the four words, two are things the child already knows and two are new.
Known words build confidence; new ones are the actual teaching.
A–I obvious, J–R tucked in, S–Z properly hidden.
A flat difficulty loses seven-year-olds by page six.
Printed once, at the front: pink alligators are allowed.
It is the brand promise, and it stops the child asking "what colour should it be?"
Tiny thumbnails with the four things circled.
Prevents the meltdown at "I can't find the axe", and lets the parent play referee.
The instruction is find · colour · say. Naming out loud is the bit that teaches.
Colouring alone teaches nothing; naming builds vocabulary and letter sounds.
Four words per letter, with at least one everyday Indian thing (highlighted) so this reads as an Indian alphabet, not an imported one. A–E match what you have already drawn; swap any of the rest to fit your artwork.
| Letter | The four things | Hiding |
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X is the trap every ABC book falls into. Don't hunt for words starting with X — hunt for the letter itself: box, fox, six, xylophone.
Big "ABC" with things hiding inside the three letters, and the promise underneath: Find it · Colour it · Say it. Age 4–7 on the front. Your name on it, because a real artist behind the book is the thing Amazon's ₹99 books can't copy.
Answer key for all 26 letters · an alphabet chart where the child colours a square per finished letter · the grown-ups' QR (artwork only, no faces) · "how to use this book" in four lines.
Post one letter a week as a free download. Kids send back their coloured versions, you feature the weirdest ones, and the next letter goes up. The book becomes its own content calendar, and the feature is a surprise, never a promised prize.
Pair it with a 30-second reel: you drawing that letter, the four things appearing one by one.