'Riddlespeak' with Nadine D'Souza
Chakrampur is a prosperous little town thanks to its smart mayor, Piloo Paheliji. He loves to show off how clever he is by asking riddles...
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Satya's Boat: a reverie
Nandini loves boats and so does Satya! Nandini loves Banaras and so does Satya! Nandini loves the magic and colours that boats carry and...
Blogfest: My Science Story
National Science Day is celebrated on February 28th every year to mark the discovery of The Raman Effect. But who was CV Raman? Someone...
My Science Story: Winners and a round-up!
Thanks to all those who participated in the My Science Story blogfest. We enjoyed reading through your entries. The winners are Vani...
Book Buzz
Tamasha with Kiran Shah Popular Australian storyteller Kiran Shah made her first visit to Chennai on 20th January and performed to an...
Review roundup
GUDDU'S PHOTO "Children will love the repetitive nature of the story, and find their own suspense elements within that predictable frame...
Painting Stories
BLUE AND OTHER STORIES “Suniti Namjoshi’s Blue And Other Stories spurs young and adult readers to discover the deeper meaning of fables…...
Pleasant Rakshasa - Quirky Q&A
January 21, 2013
The Pleasant Rakshasa story
When I was an editor with a children’s magazine, I sat next to a pillar in office that had the image of a purple-coloured rakshasa who...
Tulika Book Buzz
Birdywood Beat The children of Nalanda School, Mumbai, grooved to the sounds of the Birdywood Beat with writer Shamim Padamsee, who did a...
Tamasha with Rakshasa and Bulbuli's Bamboo too!
THE PLEASANT RAKSHASA The Pleasant Rakshasa was launched at Pappadum, on Saturday, 22nd December. On a fine Saturday morning, Jeeva Aunty...
First Look Science
These five books are perfect for a child’s first look at science, because they were born as pictures. In a classroom project with...
My Adventures with Night
Junuka Deshpande is an artist, filmmaker and teacher. She likes to explore methods and forms of documenting and understanding people and...
Bondas, Birds and More: Shamim Padamsee at Bookaroo 2012
Writer and educationist Shamim Padamsee has published many books with Tulika. Her first, Dancing on Walls, a fantasy story on how Warli...
The Rambunctious Rakshasa Rhyme
December 15, 2012
Bookaroo in the City: Mayil Will Not Be Quiet
As part of Bookaroo in the City, we took Mayil Will Not Be Quiet to Satyug Darshan Vidyalaya, Faridabad. The auditorium was packed with...
Woohoo, Bookaroo!
Writers Niveditha Subramaniam and Sowmya Rajendran took snow kings, sky monkeys and a merry rakshasa with them to Bookaroo. Sowmya shares...
Magnificent Makhna: Meet the Author and Illustrator
A majestic elephant protects the forests from timber traders, tree-cutters and poachers. The animal becomes such a legend, that his...
Tulika at Bookaroo 2012
The 5th edition of the Bookaroo Festival of Children's Literature is around the corner and Sowmya Rajendran and Niveditha Subramaniam are...
Bamboo Banter: Q&A with Mita and Proiti
The author of Bulbuli's Bamboo, Mita Bordoloi spent her teenage years in Assam – where the story is based – at the edge of Kaziranga...
Stone Eggs: in conversation with Helen Rundgren
(This conversation is between Arundhati Venkatesh of Saffron Tree and Helen Rundgren, the author of the popular Tulika book, Stone...
Folk Art and Craft in Tulika's Picture Books
Pictures have been integral to storytelling in many oral traditions of India. Phad or patachitra scrolls unroll as the story unfolds,...
Around the world in ten stories: My Facebook Friends
Trans-media artist, Kavita Singh Kale, successfully launched her new book, My Facebook Friends, at the first edition of the United Art...
'Handmade' Note
Mother-of-two Rachna-Maneesh Dhir discovered Tulika books eleven years ago, when her daughter was born. Today, this Bangalore-based 'book...
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