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Jaaved Jaaferi Launches Super Hathaman!

Our newest audiobook title, Super Hathaman, is the exciting story of a yogi who wishes to become superhuman. He travels all the way to Tibet to find out how. Read the book to join Super Hathaman's super journey! You can buy the book at your nearest bookstore - or you can pick it up online here.

On 11 January 2010, Karadi Tales launched Super Hathaman at Landmark (Infiniti Mall, Andheri) in Bombay with narrator Jaaved Jaaferi, illustrator Chetan Sharma, musician Narayan Parasuram and publisher Shobha Viswanath. Take a look at some photographs from the launch!

Jaaved Jaaferi, Shobha Viswanath and others on the panel:

Jaaved Jaaferi and Chetan Sharma launch the book.

Chetan Sharma shows us how to draw Hathaman!

Jaaved Jaaferi reads an excerpt from the book!

Narayan Parasuram conducts a sing along session with the kids.

Jaaved Jaaferi addresses the audience.

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Why we at Karadi Tales love Eric Carle

Kids love him, teachers swear by him and parents are grateful to him. In an era where parents all over the world are terrified of the effects of television violence on their children, Eric Carle is a smart, exciting and wholesome solution.

No, he isn’t a new action hero or a TV star. He’s the man who’s brought the reading habit back into children’s lives. He’s a writer-illustrator who has entered the homes and hearts of children everywhere… 

And recently, he’s entered India as well in a bilingual effort by Chitra Books, an imprint of Karadi Tales. Four of his titles – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Tiny Seed, The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. Carle’s text and illustrations have been faithfully retained, with an additional Hindi translation by Sushma Bakshmi. Take a look at the Chitra bilingual Eric Carle books here.

Eric Carle’s best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into more than 45 languages and sold over 25 million copies. His art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. It is created in the collage technique, using hand-painted papers, which he cuts and layers to form bright and cheerful images. 

Karadi Tales also publishes The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a tactile picture book - books that you can touch and feel. Information about our tactile books is here. 

In his info-video, Eric Carle: Picture Writer, Carle says: 'The unknown often brings fear with it. In my books I try to counteract this fear, to replace it with a positive message. I believe that children are naturally creative and eager to learn. I want to show them that learning is really both fascinating and fun.'

And that’s exactly what he does – his books tell interesting tales within a learning mechanism: they incorporate nature facts – such as how the caterpillar turns into a butterfly or how seeds grow into plants – and inspirational messages – perseverance, politeness and identity. These lessons are subtly reinforced by his wonderful artwork that children keep going back to over and over again. An Eric Carle book is not one that you read and put away – it’s a book that children read and re-read and never forget.

Do read Saffron Tree's review of The Very Hungry Caterpillar here, their review of The Mixed Up Chameleon here and their review of The Grouchy Ladybug here. And don't forget to check out Eric Carle's blog here!

Karadi Tales at Bookaroo!

In November 2009, Karadi Tales participated in the Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo Children's Literature Festival in Delhi.The festival is an effort towards promoting reading, children's literature and Indian publishers for children. Conducted at Sanskriti Kendra Anandgram on Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, the fest saw a number of children's authors, publishers, illustrators and storytellers come together through a series of well-attended events over the last weekend of November.

Karadi Tales was quite busy through it all as well! Anushka Ravishankar, Manasi Subramaniam and C. P. Viswanath performed two interactive readings of Little Vinayak and The Monkeys and the Capseller from the 'Will You Read With Me?' series, following it up with a sing-along session.

Later, C. P. Viswanath held a sing-along of Karadi Rhymes for very young children. He sang three all-time favourite rhymes - 'My name is Madhavi', 'Train' and 'Mangoes' and had children and parents singing along with him in great excitement.

An exhibition of tactile pictures was held through the course of the two days. Dreaming Fingers is an imprint of Karadi Tales that specialises in tactile picture books for the visually impaired. The first title of Dreaming Fingers was the classic Eric Carle title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For Bookaroo, this book was presented as an exhibition of pictures for children to touch and feel and see.

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