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Chennai turned 368
on August 22nd, celebrating it with walks, talks, exhibitions and events
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Tulika features
My Chennai
–
our
way of getting children to
explore the city. Click on the
My
Chennai icon to
discover Chennai hands-on. There’s an array of activities and ideas.
Easy-to-download, fun-to-use. Whether it’s one page or more, working
alone or as a group, or for a school project, the pages can come
together for a child’s very own book on the Chennai story.
This is just the first of many more interesting features
planned...for children to enjoy and engage with the numerous
possibilities that Tulika’s books offer. For
further resource material, visitors to
My Chennai can view
customised library packages of Tulika’s range of titles for classes 1 to
8. These packages are available to Chennai schools at very special
prices. To order, write in to
tulikabooks@vsnl.com
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Born Free
A dash of
Tamil
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and a taste of English and the story goes on...
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The King and the
Kiang,
Tulika’s
new picture book was launched in Chennai on August 25th at
Odyssey, Adyar. As author Mariam Karim-Ahlawat and translator
Rangashree Srinivas read from the story in English and Tamil
alternately, the children were transported deep into Yumthang
valley – with the help of illustrator Shalini Biswajit’s pictures,
full of colour and mood, to meet Kunzang, the girl who
rides free and fearless on a kiang as swift as the wind. Writing
for children and teaching French are Mariam’s twin passions. This
is her second book with Tulika and Shalini’s first. The book is
just as lyrical in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi,
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Picture the
city |
Telling images for
their Chennai canvas |
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As an
artist, it helps to know your landscape
to relate to a story. And Shalini knew hers,
having
trekked in Sikkim. It was the children’s
turn to know theirs through an art workshop
following
the reading. Shalini worked with Tulika’s idea to get them to explore
Chennai
through
their senses. Especially appropriate, given that
the city was celebrating its birthday.
The little
ones yelled,
‘beaches, catamarans, smoke, honking cars, the sun...’
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Painted Walls
When Shamim Padmasee is not busy with education related
matters, she
dreams up stories for children like this one about
imagination.
Dancing on Walls
is her take on
how those little
white
stick figures came to populate the wall paintings
of the
Warli people
of Maharashtra. With Ms Padamsee’s writing and
Uma
Krishnawamy’s swirling pictures, things are on the move in
young Shirvi’s world, in this magical, sprightly picture book from Tulika.
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Forthcoming... Jhakkad
and
Colour-Colour Kamini,
two visually rich and playful picture books
in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Bangla.
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Jhakkad
follows a mischievous wind
through a stormy night, one that first time illustrator Shailja Jain
deftly captures in rich, deep hues. Jhakkad tumbled out from behind a
cloud, thanks to Amra Alam, a prolific children’s writer who lives and
works in Karachi, Pakistan. This being her very first children’s book in
India, Tulika is excited to publish it...for children everywhere. |
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I n our own backyard,
Radhika Chadha, keeps adding to the
population of Tulika’s most endearing bunch of animals!
Illustrator Priya Kuriyan’s artful use of colour and lively detail,
makes them animals with attitude!
In Colour-Colour Kamini,
their third in the series that’s topping the bookstore charts, you’ll
meet Bahadur’s new friend, a rather overenthusiastic chameleon
who changes colour faster than you can say colour-colour!
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