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Gijubhai Badheka (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Indian educator, a noted humanitarian best known for the. Her educational method is in use today in public as well as private schools throughout the world.

Life and career
Gijubhai Badheka, is one of Gujarat’s foremost educationists and storytellers. Born in 1885, Gijubhai passed away in 1939 at the age of 54. Between 1920 and 1939 he wrote prolifically in the area of children’s literature and education. He is the author of over 200 books, of which 20 were addressed to teachers and parents. His best-known work is Diwaswapna (daydream) first published in Gujarati in 1939. This is counted among the world’s classics in pedagogy.

In Gujarat his name is synonymous with a rich treasure of stories for children. Gijubhai Badheka has been acknowledged as the Brahma of Gujarati children’s literature. Drawing upon the ageless folk traditions and the rhyme and rhythm of colloquial Saurashtra dialect, Gijubhai penned delightful tales of ordinary people, and familiar animals and birds. Generations of children have grown up with these tales, told and retold by grandparents and parents.

Surprisingly, this rich treasure of tales has not been widely translated into other Indian languages, except for Hindi. There is almost no translation of the stories in English that captures the flavour of times gone by, and yet are timeless in their spirit.