Anisha Thampy is a Post-Graduate in Graphic Design from NID, Ahmedabad. She designed the picture book Pond for Tulika as her Diploma Project. Anisha loves fairy tales and it shows in her style of illustrations – brilliant, dreamy, innocent and very childlike. Currently based in New Delhi, she works as a graphic designer and hopes to be able to design, illustrate and even write some children’ books.
There are many creatures in and around this pond, and much that is happening! Bold, colourful pictures on the pages are labelled with words in two languages – one familiar, and a translation in a less familiar one – so that children can can string them to together to tell their own stories while they learn a language. A list at the end helps them remember...
