Manjari Chakravarti spent most of her childhood between the covers of picture books. When she grew up, she studied art, drew, painted, sculpted and did printmaking. She also loves to write her own stories. Manjari lives and works in Shantiniketan.
A little girl spills, drops, breaks, trips on things. She is called Clumsy, Slowcoach, Careless... words that scare away all other words. But in her head, words become stories and stories, pictures. With a box of paints and a brush, she sweeps herself away from the names people call her! Vivid watercolours lift her from her everyday milieu into a swirl of...
A humorous grandma story about a smart partridge, which gently draws attention to the plight of the Paardhi tribals of Madhya Pradesh who have had to leave the forest to become ragpickers in the city.
A boy finds a little seed and plants it. What will grow out of it, he wonders — a tree, a butterfly, a mountain?