“My child can read now — what’s next?”

Pip’s Missing Word

After phonics, words. The vocabulary card game that gives fluent little readers the words to say what they already feel — set in an India your child recognizes.

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  • 292 cards in the box
  • Ages 6–10 built for the age
  • 30+ yrs classroom-tested
  • Made in India start to finish
A young girl presses her hand to a bus window, mouth open in wonder, at her first sight of the sea on an Indian coast at sunset.
The first sight of the sea.
Sid raises his hand at the cricket crease to tell the umpire he edged the ball and is out.
The honest call.

The moment every parent knows

Right now, everything is “nice.”

The mela was nice. The temple chariot was nice. The winning six? Nice.

Your child feels all of it — they just don’t have the words yet. It’s where a lot of confident readers land for a while: fluent on the page, flat out loud.

A little pile of blank grey paper cards beside one bright orange card that Pip the parrot perches by — plain words on one side, the vivid word on the other.

“It was… nice.”

So we built the in-between

The words between reading
and expressing.

Three numbers, one box — every word carried by a moment your child already knows, and a definition they can actually hold.

Sid bowling the last over on a dusty maidan.
Ria looking at her rain-washed rangoli.
A temple chariot rolling past at dusk.
Ria sharing an umbrella with her grandmother in the rain.
Sid returning extra coins to a chai-seller.
A story moment from Pip’s Missing Word.
Ria at a microphone on a lit school stage.
A story moment from Pip’s Missing Word.
A story moment from Pip’s Missing Word.
A story moment from Pip’s Missing Word.

80 illustrated story moments

A last over under a banyan tree. A temple chariot at dusk. The first sight of the sea. Every word lives inside a moment your child already knows.

188

words, each with a child-friendly definition

Describing words and action words, defined the way you’d explain them to a seven-year-old. They don’t memorize “luminous.” They meet it. The richest forty-six are star words — worth double when they win a round.

Word card: conscientious — careful to do your job properly and fully. Word card: compassionate — caring deeply when someone is hurting. Word card: avid — super keen; loving something so much you cannot wait. Word card: blurt — to say something suddenly without thinking. Word card: sheepish — embarrassed-looking after a silly mistake. Word card: ponder — to think about something deeply.

Meet the trio

The friends in every story.

Pip the parrot, Sid and Ria turn up across all 80 story moments — the little characters your child plays alongside, round after round.

Ria, Sid and Pip the parrot gathered beside the Pip’s Missing Word box, each introduced on a little paper name chip.
Meet the trioPip, Sid & Ria — the little friends who carry every story card.

80 situations + 188 words + 24 helper cards = 292 cards in one box.

Chosen, argued over, and classroom-tested until every card earned its place.

How a round works

Flip a moment. Find the best word.

  1. 1Turn over a story card — “Sid was ____.”
  2. 2Everyone races to play the word card that fits best.
  3. 3The best-fitting word takes the round. Star words score double.

Quick to learn, hard to put down — and every round, another vivid word gets used out loud instead of “nice.”

A round of Pip’s Missing Word in play: the situation card “Pip on the Curtain Rod” turns over, the word cards ‘avid’ and ‘audacious’ fan out, and ‘audacious’ — the boldest fit — is chosen for the win.
A round in play — a moment, the words, one best fit.
Mridu Gulla turning a paper-craft word machine as a “generous” word card emerges from the film reel.
Behind the deckEvery word chosen, defined, and tested by hand — one card at a time.

Mridu Gulla, Phonics & Reading Specialist

The educator behind the words.

Thirty-plus years of teaching children to read — and watching what comes after. Every one of the 188 words was chosen, argued over, and tested with her live tuition cohort before it earned a card. The definitions read the way she explains them to a seven-year-old, not the way a dictionary does.

“In 30 years of classrooms, here’s the moment I wait for: when a child stops saying ‘nice’ and says ‘generous.’”

  • Classroom-testedPlayed in her live tuition cohort before print
  • Made in IndiaIllustrated, written and produced here

Before Diwali 2026

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