The first in a series of Urdu animated stories CD-ROMs, E Kahaniyan is a joint production of eTeam and The Book Group.

Accompanied with excellent background music, special sound effects, text, synchronized narration and animations, E Kahaniyan is first of its kind Urdu animated stories CD-ROM, targeted at school going-children.

E-Kahaniyan Vol. 1 features 4 animated stories adapted from The Book Group storybooks. The attractive main menu of the CD-ROM contains links to the four animated stories.

‘Na School, Na Homework’ is a fun story about a girl who is fascinated by the carefree life of a sparrow and wishes to be one. She thinks that if she were a sparrow, she would have flown from tree to tree, branches to branches. She would have sat on a cow. Neither had her feet gotten dirty, nor she would have had to wear socks.

‘Khait Say Mandi’ takes children on a step-by-step journey of vegetables from fields to the market. It starts with telling how some vegetables taken out from inside the ground and some picked from plants and trees, above the ground. While describing each step of the vegetables’ journey, the story also highlights common elements of a village, like fields, tube well, cattle herds, flour mill, etc.

‘Khatta Bakrah’ is a humorous story of a goat that lived on a lemon tree. The story tells how the goat used to eat lemons of all types and sizes, day and night and sleep. The story then describes what happened when one day the goat encountered a hungry lion that used to sit under the tree.

This story is about a kite and a boy named Meekael. In this story, the kite talks to Meekael and tells him about what it is viewing from the sky.

Each story comes to life through animation of beautiful hand-painted illustrations with special sound effects and a soft voice narrating the story. Narrations add to the story-time effect. In each story, text is not only narrated but is also written on the screen, allowing children to be able to follow what’s being narrated. The previous/next buttons let children enjoy a story at their own pace.

E-Kahaniyan Vol. 1 is an irresistible product for school going- children to help them learn about their surroundings in an engaging way, and to improve upon their Urdu while having fun.