After five years as editor, Senior editor and Commissioning editor at Karadi Tales, Manasi Subramaniam is taking a trip to Harper Collins India, Noida. We are sure she will be back because who in the world would want to make Delhi their home after living in a culturally vibrant city like Namma Chennai! However, we do…
Patrick Elliott reviews Dancing Bear in the San Francisco Book Review:
All in all however, Dancing Bear has a heartwarming moral and teaches valuable lessons to youngsters while providing interesting cultural insights.
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Veteran kids blogger Debbie Glade reads our lovely Thea’s Tree and reviews it on her blog:
“Creative and Simple, the Way a Picture Book Should Be!”
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A lovely review of our picture book, Dancing Bear, says: This book is an interesting look at this culture and lifestyle. Altaf loves his bear and doesn’t want to hurt him. When he realizes that Somu’s future may be in danger, Altaf does the brave thing and takes his bear to the authorities for rescue. His…
Turning Pages reviews three of our absolutely gorgeous picture books – When the Earth Lost its Shapes, Dancing Bear, and The Bookworm. Take a look here!
We have several editorial vacancies at Karadi Tales and Karadi Path. It’s a great opportunity for English majors who are curious about publishing and/or education. The positions are based in Chennai and cannot be fulfilled remotely. We’re completely open to applications from all academic streams, of course, but a passion for reading, strong copy-editing skills,…
Exciting news! Our gorgeous picture book An Elephant in my Backyard is reviewed in the extremely prestigious Kirkus Reviews. The book review is currently available only to subscribers, but will become visible on the website to non-subscribers from 22 September 2013. But in the meanwhile, we’re reproducing the text of the review here for you! An…
Our publishing director Shobha Viswanath is interviewed on the Alternative. “Picture books have found continuous relevance through Karadi. As you pick up some of Karadi’s works and flip through the pages, you discover a thousand stories in the pictures. They immediately inspire with their vibrancy and depth.” “With its work of over 16 years in…
Our Commissioning Editor Manasi Subramaniam writes in The Hindu Sunday Magazine about navigating changes in the publishing world and the onus that lies on editorial curatorship: These are the days when an author may post a novel online and watch it generate revenue without involving the messy intermediations of big profit-making conglomerates, but that only…