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A Book Trail in Mexico

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making cooperative of Mayan women called Taller Lenateros, The Woodlanders’ Workshop. Impossible to sum up otherwise, I decided to turn my experience into a small [...]

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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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