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Talking Gender
A review of Gender Talk - Big Hero, Size Zero by a 15-year-old "The book states a lot of facts without hiding anything. The truth is not morphed to make it sound better. That way it is different and...
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Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2015 for Mayil Will Not Be Quiet!
A flower shower for the award-winning Mayil Will Not Be Quiet!, Sowmya Rajendran, who co-authored the book with Niveditha Subramaniam – collected the award from Sahitya Akademi on Children’s Day at a...
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Tulika in 2015
JANUARY1.The House That Sonabai Builtby Vishakha Chanchani and photographs by Stephen P. HuylerThis sensitive telling of Sonabai's story follows her transformative artistic journey from the tactile...
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Mukand and Riaz at Mumbai Mobile Creches
Here is the note sent by the lovely Team MMC:MMC’s day care centers are probably the most unique day care centers in Mumbai. Mumbai Mobile Creches is the only NGO that runs day care centers for...
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Ranjan De and the crow
Post by Sandhya RaoRanjan De with writer Bindu Bhaskar Balaji at a workshopWe lived in a nest of sorts at the top of a flight of narrow iron stairs. Back then, the perch still provided a fair view of...
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Crow Chronicles 1
1996. With Line and Circle, it was lift-off for Tulika's multilingual publishing programme for children. Save three months right at the start when we nested in one room on top of a rickety flight of...
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Crow Chronicles 2: Our Cathy Story
Post by Radhika MenonCathy Spagnoli and Manu with the teamCathy Spagnoli’s visit to Tulika a few days ago brought back memories of her wonderful storytelling. I first heard her at The School, KFI,...
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On Gone Grandmother
Author Chatura Rao writes about the launch of Gone Grandmother.I took Gone Grandmother to the Peek-a-Book Children's Literature Festival that was held in Bandra, Mumbai, on December 10th, 2016. It was...
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JANUARYWe started the year off on a high…The House That Sonabai Built won The Hindu Young World-GoodBooks Award for Best Book – Non-Fiction, and Gender Talk: Big Hero, Size Zero was announced as an...
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To Tulika, with love
We are deeply touched that people take the trouble to write and tell us how much they love our books and why. It gives us our energy shots!On TulikaEvery Friday afternoon, in the village of...
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Half baked cake!
Sandhya with the childrenTo celebrate a day that celebrates books, we put together a creative writing workshop at Wandering Artist, Chennai. Some creative prodding from writer Sandhya Rao, some...
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Creative Non-fiction
Non-fiction = information books = general knowledge = better marks. This is how the genre has usually been seen with regard to children, and this is a reason why it is much in demand among parents and...
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Stories Through a Writer-Activist’s Eyes
We know we said we’d give you a post on Excavating History but that is in the making right now. (It’s on archaeology so, you know, it needs some time!) In the meanwhile, here’s something else that’s...
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Q and A with Rinchin
As we told you in the previous post, we are intrigued with Rinchin’s storytelling technique and the way she weaves the story and its social, political, cultural and environmental issues into a fine...
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Ambedkar, a Library and a Boy Called Balmiki
WHY do I have to sit separately in a corner of the classroom?WHY can’t I drink water from the tap like other children?WHY do the teachers never touch my books?The ‘Whys’ shout louder in little Bhim’s...
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Exciting History, Electrifying History…‘Excavating History’
Most people think that a book on history is a surefire way to guarantee yourself a good snooze. We beg to differ. Excavating History is our attempt to make sure that you are awakened and refreshed and...
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(Sub)Mission Possible!
A question-answer session live on Facebook with Tulika's Publishing Director Radhika Menon on what makes a good manuscript.Shyamala Shanmugasundaram of Kahani Takbak invited me to do a live Facebook...
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The Adventures of a First Time Editor
Read all about the unintentionally humourous side of a Tulika editor’s first experience of sending a book to press, in her own words. After a couple of ‘settling-in’ weeks at Tulika, I was told that I...
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Montessori Book List
Over the years we’ve seen that many of our books dot bookshelves in Montessori schools. The top two criteria that teachers are looking for are the content (no talking animals, simple story lines and...
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Guest Post by Sandhya Rao: Stories Are for Sharing
Tulika author Sandhya Rao describes her experience of the Srinagar Bookaroo: Festival of Children’s Literaturein a guest post.Back in the day when mention of Kashmir evoked filmy duets and romantic...
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