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Oluguti Toluguti (English)

Oluguti Toluguti (English)

Author: Tulika Publishers Genre: Tulika Books Illustrator: Kshitiz Sharma

Welcome to the world of Oluguti Toluguti - and kosuguti too! it is a world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches and hatttima tim tims. Listen to the birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. Watch pom pom motor cars and chuk chuk trains go by. Meet Tuaan -Tueen and Rolenga and Suraiyya. Play in the rain falling chham chham chham and dance thai thaka thaka with a crane standing on one leg. Meet Ammas and Abbus and Sister Moon. It is a chemma chekka world of dam padam pappadams and kahbdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more brought alive by Kshitiz Sharma's energetic and endearing illustrations. The 54 rhymes in 18 Indian languages celebrate the richness and vitality of India's multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English capture the sounds and rhythms of the original languages, which also appear alongside. For those who want to know how to read, there are transliterations in Roman script (of English) and Devanagari (of Hindi). Read more

My Mother's Sari (English)

My Mother's Sari (English)

Author: Sandhya Rao Genre: Tulika picture books Illustrator: Nina Sabnani

The sari Mother wears everyday is sometimes a train, sometimes a river or a swing or a hiding place... Children have a way of seeing things differently! the pictures too break away from conventional depictions of both sari and children, combining photographs and acrylic in dramatic, original ways. The spare text weaves and winds between this visual interplay of children, colours and textures, to create the mood-filled world of My Mother's Sari. the US edition of the book has been selected for Outstanding International Books for 2007, a cooperative project of the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) and the Children's Book Council, USA. Read more

Ekki Dokki (English)

Ekki Dokki (English)

Author: Sandhya Rao Genre: Fiction Illustrator: Ranjan De

An endearing Marathi folktale about two sisters. Ekkesvali has one hair on her head; Dhonkesvali has two and thinks she’s great. What happens to them when they meet an old woman who lives alone in a clearing right in the middle of the forest…? This folktale takes on a special joyousness with Ranjan De's stylised representations, full of interesting details. Read more