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Journeys
with Aditi and Suniti
Taking the cue from intrepid travellers Aditi
and her friends, the Tulika team and Suniti Namjoshi (poet,
fabulist and author of the much-loved Aditi series), set off
to Bangalore to launch the first Aditi Adventure pack
at Crossword bookstore, Residency Road. This set, the first four in
the series, goes by the name Unlikely Friends. It’s now
available in bookstores at a very special price! |
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After the
tantrum-throwing, earthquake-causing,
lava-spewing Vesuvian giant, meet a couple of
monsters with not-so-monstrous problems, in two
new books in the series also released that evening.
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In Aditi and her Friends meet
Grendel, the quest for a certain rose that
will make Aditi’s grandmother
feel better, takes the adventurers to Devon, England.
There they meet little boy Grendel and his
mother. Recast from the Beowulf legend, the two are out to
make you rethink your notions about monsters!
Aditi and her Friends
help the Budapest Changeling
takes the familiar cast of characters to
Budapest,
Hungary, to find Siril the ant and help a strange little
Changeling discover herself.
During Suniti’s interaction
with children at The Valley School, one perceptive
thirteen-year-old boy
distilled its theme of identity with
disarming simplicity when he said that though you copy
others you
are still who you are! Another was absolutely
convinced the Aditi books were better than the Harry
Potters!
Well, the boys didn’t seem to have any problems
responding to a series powered by a girl!
When Suniti
invited suggestions on where she could fly off to in her
next book, the sky and
beyond was the limit...She was
seriously mulling over one boy’s idea of surfing on
Saturn’s rings!!
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. .While in
Bangalore, Sandhya Rao, popular author and editor at
Tulika, was at the Mallya Aditi International School,
serving up a feast of languages to mark language week.
Apart from reading to children in English and Hindi from
some of her bestselling titles, Sandhya peppered the
readings with occasional but effortless banter in
Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati and Bangla. |
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When a
caterpillar goes on the rampage, the creator has
to realise that he made a mistake...Brahma’s Butterfly,
Tulika’s
new picture book by Meena Raghunathan, takes an
affectionate,
funny look at one such perfect mistake. Kavita Singh Kale’s
pictures offer dramatic perspectives
in this encounter between a
very angry god and a very hairy, very hungry
caterpillar.
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Remembering
Mohania
What was Gandhi like as
a boy? What were the small and big events in his life
that changed him forever? What little children might know
is probably from a history lesson. How does one help them
relate to him? That’s what Sandhya Rao did during the last week of January
to mark Gandhi's death anniversary.
On her
visit to three schools, Sishya, American International and
Asan Memorial, she got them to meet the man behind the
icon, using Picture Gandhi and My Gandhi
Scrapbook, her two recent books.
They were tickled
to know that even he preferred to stay home with his
mother than go to school, called his teachers names,
wasn’t good at multiplication, was afraid of the dark...So instead of becoming a solemn occasion, the honesty,
curiosity and sense of fun – qualities these children
share with a toothless man by the name of
Mr. Gandhi – made it a celebration of an ordinary man who
became extraordinary.
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