Illustration of Garud carrying two children through the sky, from Journey With The Gods
Stories & Poetry

Journey with the Gods

Awoken by a magical moon, two children meet the gods and heroes of Indian mythology.

Awoken by the light of a magical moon, Vinita and Deepak embark on an amazing adventure with magnificent gods and heroes from Indian mythology. Illustrated by Anita Chowdry. Available in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi and Panjabi. It is accompanied by beautiful songs in English.

Featured by world-famous dancer Akram Khan on his website, reading it to his own daughter, Sayuri, as part of his audio series “An Ancient Observer” (sound design by Pete Thomas).

Journey With The Gods book cover, illustrated by Anita Chowdry
Listen to the story

Narrated by Linda Shanson

From Aunty's House — the full story of Journey With The Gods, told episode by episode.

Meet the gods

Voices from the book

A special reading

Read by Akram Khan

Now a father himself, world-famous dancer and choreographer Akram Khan narrates stories close to his heart to his daughter, Sayuri, sharing them with all children as part of his audio series “An Ancient Observer.” Journey With The Gods was chosen as part of this series, with sound design by Pete Thomas.

Akram Khan reading Journey With The Gods to his daughter
An extract

How the story begins

The next time you gaze into the night sky, take a closer look at the moon. If you are very lucky it may appear round and blue. This blue moon is very precious, for on nights when it shines, impossible things happen!

One night, not long ago, a beam from this blue moon shone into a room where two children lay sleeping. It settled on the picture of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god.

Who is welcome in the house Sitting on a little mouse? Ganesha, Ganesha!

— from Journey With The Gods