A set of picture books that take a curious child from her first qubit to a real quantum computer, one short story at a time. Every book is set in the same fictional Indian temple-town bazaar, with the same family of robots, so a reader who loves one book already knows the whole cast.
Ages 5 to 9. Published by RSL Quantum Press, an imprint of RSL Quantum Private Limited.
At RSL Quantum we are building quantum software in India. Education sits alongside our five research pillars, and we hold a plain belief: the technology only matters if the next generation grows up ready to use it. A child who is eight today will be an engineer, a founder, a teacher or a policymaker of the quantum decade. We would rather she met her first qubit as a friendly brass coin in a story than as an intimidating equation in a lecture hall.
Our founder, Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, Director of the INTRINSIC Lab at the Centre for SeNSE, IIT Delhi, has carried this idea for a long time. Quantum science is usually taught late, in dense language, to a small few. He wanted to turn that around: start early, start warm, start at home. Begin with a curious child in a familiar lane, keep the science honest, and let wonder do the teaching.
That is how the Quantum Bazaar Series began. Each book takes one real idea from quantum physics and plants it in an everyday Indian scene a child already knows. A coin that has not decided yet. Light that behaves like a wave. A quiet day full of hidden patterns. The story carries the science, and the science carries the story.
This series is the first public step of that education work. Quantum Power. From Bharat. For the World. It begins with a bedtime story.
A first picture book about quantum, for ages 5 to 9.
A small brass coin does not pick heads or tails until Quanta looks at it. The first idea in quantum mechanics, told as one warm afternoon in the bazaar.
On sale on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
A first picture book about wave-particle duality, for ages 5 to 9.
A tiny thing can be sometimes a drop and sometimes a wave. The same tiny thing. A rooftop two-door test on Diwali night shows how.
In production. Not yet on sale.
A picture-book album of small days in the temple-town lane, for ages 5 to 9.
Thirty-two quiet cameos of ordinary days in the lane from Book 1 and Book 2. Small moments that quietly carry the same shapes science will later ask big questions about.
In production. Not yet on sale.
The Quantum Bazaar Series follows Quanta, an eight-year-old girl who lives above a tiny laboratory in a temple-town lane. Each book takes one real idea from quantum science and tells it as a small story she can touch: a coin that has not decided yet, light that behaves like a wave, a quiet day that hides a deep pattern. The setting is everyday.
The lane itself is the second main character. Quanta shares it with a whole family of robots, each one shaped around a single idea from physics: Dada-Bot the patient grandfather, Dadi-Bot the calm grandmother, the warm-hearted Auntie Supi and Auntie Dhooli, and the two tiny coin friends Q0 and Q1, one always sleepy and one always wide awake. Schro, the cat, wanders through whenever she pleases. Around them sit the chai stall, the brass-coin maker, the flower seller and the small temple at the end of the lane, the same warm corners in every book, so a reader who loves one story already knows the whole world.
Book 1 introduces the family and the first idea and is on sale now. Book 2 builds on it, and Book 3 is a gentle album of the lane itself; both are in production.
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