There are so many exciting things happening at Karadi Tales this month! Kanyika Kini collected the SABA award for The Rumor in Madison, we received the gorgeous multilingual editions of The Rumor from Edition Orient, and our spectacular theatrical production Karadi Rhymes – Once Upon A Bak-Bak Tree premieres at the Chinmaya Heritage Centre, Chennai tomorrow!…
We received the multilingual editions of our award-winning book, The Rumor from Edition Orient yesterday. The story of Baddbaddpur is now being told in German, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Malayalam! Take a sneak-peek of the books, look how fantastic they are! And guess what? You can also play Spot-the-Difference with these books! Go on,…
You do know that our book, The Rumor won the South Asia Book Award this year, don’t you? The illustrator, Kanyika Kini went to Madison for the award ceremony and she sent us a happy little mail about her experience there. Read on. I had a really lovely (and pretty hectic!) trip to Madison. The book…
Diwali celebrations began early for a group of children at San Jose, thanks to Roopa Suresh who organised an evening of Karadi stories, dance and craft at the San Jose Library. Here’s a video clip from the event, watch Roopa perform to a song from Hanuman The Mighty.
Our Creative Director and one-third of the band 3 Brothers & A Violin, Narayan Parasuram writes a lovely little note about working with Manna Dey.It took me several attempts to meet Manna Dey during the creation of Bandar Bindaas Bandar – not that it was difficult to reach him but simply because he could not understand…
We learnt of the death of the veteran singer, Manna Dey earlier today and we couldn’t help but think of the lovely ‘Nadiya Mein Paani’ that he sang for one of our Karadi Katha titles, Raja Kapi. To listen to this lilting melody written by the renowned poet and Hindi lyricist, Gulzar, click here. RIP Manna Dey…
Eight-year-old Rachel reviews some of our titles for the San Francisco Book Review. Here’s what she has to say about The Story and the Song: “I like this book because it had very pretty pictures and it was really nice to listen to. I like the story (and the song!); I think it is fun…
Who is Sadhvi Jawa, you ask? If you’ve picked up An Elephant in My Backyard, one of our newest titles, you’d know about this lovely lady and her work of art. If you haven’t, head to the Karadi Tales website and place an order for the book right away! Sadhvi teaches at the Srishti School of…
Anushka Ravishankar needs no introduction, does she? We all know that she is one of India’s most well-loved children’s writers and that she, along with Sayoni Basu, founded Duckbill Books. We also know that she is the head of SCBWI, India. Of course we know about her Karadi Tales books, don’t we? The SABA-award-winning Rumour, The…
