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Collaborative Nonsense

By admin | Published: May 18, 2012

An Interview with Anushka Ravishankar On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of her first book, India’s acclaimed nonsense poet Anushka Ravishankar talks to the team at Tara Books about the collaborative process behind making picture books for children.   8 people like this post. Like Unlike

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Gender & Social Media

By admin | Published: May 31, 2011

Recently, we were asked to write an article about our experience of gender in children’s books in the Indian context. It’s certainly a topical issue at the moment: a recent study in the US looking at almost 6,000 books published between 1990 and 2000 found that males are central characters in 57% of children’s books [...]

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Questioning the Greats

By admin | Published: February 17, 2011

Education, Authority & the Indian Epics Samhita Arni wrote and illustrated Tara’s ‘The Mahabharatha: a Child’s View’ when she was just twelve. Fifteen years, almost 50,000 copies worldwide and seven language editions later, we have just released the fifth edition of the book in a single volume. To mark this milestone, Samhita returns to her [...]

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10: Time and Movement in Book Design

By admin | Published: November 25, 2010

Talking to Marion Bataille There is nothing we enjoy more than playing with the form of the book, and meeting the French artist Marion Bataille was a revelation. Marion performs an incredible feat – she pushes the borders of bookmaking beyond text and illustration. Her pop-up books – originally published in France by Albin Michel [...]

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The Politics of Voice

By admin | Published: September 29, 2010

Folk and Tribal Art in Children’s Literature “It may seem, at first glance, that the majority is the dominant force in every society, but those who dramatically change their world, now and throughout history, always belong to the minority.” With this motto, the International Board on Books for Young People – IBBY – organised their [...]

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Librarians and the Future of Books

By admin | Published: July 7, 2010

In late June, I traveled on behalf of Tara Books to Washington, D.C. for the annual American Library Association conference. In humid weather that reminded one of Chennai in March, over 25,000 librarians, educators and exhibitors gathered for a weekend of panels, presentations and publishers. This was Tara Books first year as an exhibitor; other [...]

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I Have a Right

By admin | Published: December 23, 2009

At Bookaroo, Delhi At the Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo Festival in Delhi, there were many activities, talks and readings for children to choose from at any given time. So I wondered if children would choose to spend an hour and a half on something as serious as human rights. It turned out they would— ‘I [...]

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Warli Art and Public Education: Do! Travels to Mexico

By admin | Published: December 6, 2009

A year ago, we were busy finalizing plans for a rather unusual picture book. Featuring art from the Warli indigenous community whose home is western India, this book was to introduce simple verbs to the very young child. Comprising line, triangle, curve and circle, Warli art is fluid, dynamic and elegant. Children relate easily to [...]

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