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P C Ramakrishna, Chennai’s favourite theatre person read aloud from the story
in English
and Tamil. While his baritone was capturing the
drama and mischievous humour just right, Ashok Rajagopalan,
the book’s illustrator, added a crest here, a tail there, a
dab of red on
a cheek and a hint of yellow on a wing, to
show how the birds got their ‘look’! Children from SOS Children’s Village, Tambaram, got a feel of
the feverish activity around how and why
a bald bird gets to
be the leading man of Mor Khan’s superhit-in-the-making! Vaishnavi,
a student, received the first copy of the book from
P C Ramakrishna.
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Czech Stop
After the Vesuvian Giant, came Grendel and then the
Budapest Changeling. Staying on the European trail, this
summer,
Aditi and her Friends in search of Shemeek takes you to
the Czech Republic to meet Shemeek, a snow white horse,
who sleeps behind a rock, dreaming of the world. Aditi and
friends need Shemeek’s help to rid Monkeyji of a spell
cast on her.
The eighth book in the series,
it melds action,
adventure and a popular legend, and subtly asks a few questions. . . Who finally wins? Can a problem be a solution? |
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Two new
bilingual books. . . coming soon
The first book
is about a delicious dream going horribly wrong – almost!
The second features
a hungry father and dosas that disappear
from right
under his nose.
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Tulika
received this letter from a well-wisher:
“My friends and I have raised enough money, once
again, to create three new
school libraries. I am so very happy to help. Books
mean a lot to me; they’re
part of my life! I also wish that every child has
read at least ten books in their life. I’m honoured
to make this happen.”
- Georgia Anjali Gopinath is 9 years old and lives
in Canada
The money will go towards
books for libraries in villages in Tamilnadu, run
by AID INDIA, an NGO. Since Tulika publishes in
eight Indian languages,
our books reach children in various parts of the
country and we are happy
to facilitate this.
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Quietly animated
Ready to battle the heat and
the deadlines is Soumya Menon, who’s here for her internship.
A fourth-year student of animation film design from NID,
Ahmedabad, she is quiet, warm and
friendly, and fits right in,
having understood that her mother’s delicious chocolate cake
is always
welcome (when she’s visiting)! Soumya has grown up
with Tulika books and is always on the
lookout for them
because she appreciates the pictures for the way in which they
reflect Indian
storytelling and craft traditions – something
she is trying to bring to her work. She loves to write,
doodle
and travel to places off the tourist map.
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