Pencil-Mania!

The students of the School for Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim asked international designers for statements or scribbles and their favourite pencil. Eighty designers from around the world responded and all the original works were exhibited in the Pencil Mania exhibition in Hildesheim (Germany) from 14-28 June 2013. Our own designer, Parvathy Subramanian, sent…

Revenge of the Puppets: A review

Bumble Bee Picture Book Reviews writes about Revenge of the Puppets our lovely new picture book written by Nadine D’souza and illustrated by Ayush Rajvanshi: Spread over 17 pages, this book has beautiful pictures dotted with Rajasthani puppets. The illustrations are colorful and the author tells a simple story through the four heroes of the…

Tak-Tak!: A review

Bumble Bee Picture Book Reviews writes about Tak-Tak! our lovely new picture book written by Soumitra Ranade and illustrated by Shilo Shiv Suleman:The book is full of fun and charm, illustrated and written with knowledge and fun. Illustrations are the best way for kids to become imaginative and relate to stories like these to actually understand…

Making language learning easy for children to reduce disparity in quality of education

A story on Karadi Path in YourStory.in:  Karadi Path, an offshoot of Karadi tales, has developed a three component methodology to induce the environment of English learning in schools where it is not present. They develop processes to be implemented (around stories), provide tools to execute these processes (body language/textual/audio/video tools) and give training and…

Super Hathaman: Storytelling Session

Our storytellers from the Book Lovers’ Program for Schools did a storytelling session at Kamala Niketan Montessori School in Trichy on 25 June 2013. She narrated Super Hathaman to the students of Class 3. The kids particularly enjoyed the part about the monkeys. They did an activity called the “Super Yogi Distraction” where one kid stands in…