A lively young family shares their life in contemporary India, visiting everything from seventhcentury monuments to the local vegetable market. We join them at the beach, at their weeklypicnic dinner, and on their annual overnight train trip to the great Catholic pilgrimage siteat Velankanni. A brief section on the little-known dinosaurs of India may charm somereaders. This is the tenth book in the Very Young Catholic series. Each book introduces theyoung reader to Catholic children in a new country, and the full series circles the globe. Allof the children say the same prayers at Mass and share the same beliefs, but they live in widelyvarying locations and cultures. Young readers of the series will enjoy comparing their families,schools, games, and adventures, with children in other countries. Each book in the VeryYoung Catholics series is richly illustrated with on-site photography and includes scientific,geographic, or cultural explanations of points in the story.