Newsletter for March

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March Blog-Rolling - Part 2

In a really beautiful blog post, Monika Manchanda blogs about her experiences with Karadi Rhymes. She loves the 'Indian-ness' of these rhymes and admits that she enjoys them as much as her child does. Check out the comments on the post as well for some great thoughts on books and rhymes for Indian kids.

And if you don't have your copy of Karadi Rhymes yet, get them from our online store! They are available as audiobooks and DVDs!

At Jabberwock, Jai Arjun Singh blogs about the 'Will You Read With Me?' series. Describing the books as 'beautifully produced', he goes on to add: 'If these don’t get your indolent, brain-dead, junk-food-and-video-game-addicted monster child interested in stories and storytelling, nothing will. Nothing!' Thanks, Jai!

Books from this series are available here.

Times of India reviews Karadi Tales picture books. Anusha Vincent writes, 'Simplistically told and enhanced wonderfully by the artwork, these superbly-packaged books are sure to get young readers engrossed.'

Also take a look at these beautiful books on our website.

And guess what! Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar was recently voted the best bedtime story ever written! Read a piece on this in The Telegraph here. It's one of our all-time favourite picture books as well. Do read our take on Eric Carle here!

Chitra Bilingual publishes four Eric Carle books in English / Hindi. Take a look at the series!

We also publish The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a tactile picture book - a book to touch and feel. Look at the tactile series here.

The Karadi Tales Animated Series

Have you seen the Karadi Tales animated series on Disney Channel yet? We're on Season 2 now, featuring stories from Indian mythology and folklore. The show airs every weekday at 09:30 AM. Don't miss it!

Directed by Soumitra Ranade, the television series has 26 titles from the Karadi Tales catalogue rendered vibrantly in an animation style that is uniquely Indian. The animated characters and backgrounds are richly created along the lines of the Indian mask-making tradition. The final look is distinct, sophisticated and intrinsically Indian.

The soundtrack features Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Saeed Jaffrey, Jaaved Jaaferi and other celebrated artistes from the Indian theatrical tradition. The episodes are beautifully textured with the music and lilting background score created by 3 Brothers & A Violin. The series currently airs in English and Hindi, and will soon be broadcast in other regional languages as well.  

Read write-ups on the show at Daily News Analysis and The Hindu.

See videos from the show on our YouTube page!

March Blog-Rolling - Part 1

Daily News Analysis (DNA) writes about audiobooks and the reading process in an insightful, detailed article. Read it here.

For more information on the subject, do read two notes from Karadi Tales director, C. P. Viswanath, on audiobooks and reading.

Also read his piece in the Times of India on multilingualism. Pratham Books showcases this piece on their blog here. Tulika responds to this piece with their own take on language learning here.

Do take a look at our website to read more about Karadi Path and language learning in the classroom!

And did you know that our very own Sanjay Dutt has a huge, loyal fan base in Germany? Take a look at this blog post by Ingrid Diwali Zellner. She reviews The Monkeys and the Capseller and Monkeys on a Fast, two titles narrated by Sanjay Dutt in the 'Will You Read With Me?' series by Karadi Tales.

Time Out Mumbai reviews Super Hathaman (written by Kaushik Viswanath, illustrated by Chetan Sharma, narrated by Jaaved Jaaferi and set to music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and 3 Brothers & A Violin). Do read the review here!

Be sure to read this write up on the launch of the book!

You can pick up all these titles and more from the 'Will You Read With Me' series here.

Back at Saffron Tree, our favourite website on children's literature, ChoxBox refers to a Karadi Rhymes song in a review of Meera's Friends, the Trees. Take a look at the post at Saffron Tree and the cross-post at Life is a box of chocolates.

And at Pratham Books, ChoxBox writes a guest post where she talks about the Bandar Bindas Bandar compilation of Karadi Tales. You can read the cross-post at her blog as well.

At the Scholastic-Aviva Storytelling Night in Chennai on 19 February 2010, two Karadi authors, Shobha Viswanath and Kaushik Viswanath, read from The Seventh Kozhakattai, a hilarious soon-to-be-published story from Karadi Tales. Read a review of the night! And check our website regularly, because the book will be out soon!