Tulika is an independent publishing house producing quality books for children. Our logo is the common crow, a bright, busy, intelligent bird, with a great sense of family — and an unmissable part of the sights and sounds of India.

Our focus is to give children images of India we would like them to grow up with; images that go on to show how all parts of this world come together to make it a diverse and dynamic whole, a changing yet changeless continuum. Tulika's publishing programme, therefore, involves and draws inspiration from writers and illustrators sensitive to these issues.

Through pictures and words, the books offer children opportunities to experience several worlds — of people, places, animals, birds, trees, colours, shapes, ideas.

From the strong, clear lines of folk-toy based illustrations that introduce concepts of line and circle, letters of the alphabet hidden intriguingly within objects, sound words that capture the tumult of stormy visuals . . . to wordbirds which streak across pages familiarising children with strange words from different languages, folktales coloured with local art forms, ecology lessons through nostalgic watercolour memoirs or gripping adventure stories, history and geography blending in narrative and picture . . . Tulika's range has grown from the time we started in 1996, and continues to grow.

Bilingual books and translations carry forward our celebration of a multilingual society. Currently all Tulika titles are available in English, and some in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and Gujarati.

Tulika books reflect a world peopled by the many and the few, the small and the big, the same and the different, speaking different languages, of different faiths, in a myriad colours . . . all connected to each other by the past, the present, the hope of the future.

Dear reader, we wish you many delightful hours of reading and reading aloud.