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The Goshtarang project: Q and A with Geethanjali Kulkarni
When we read about The Goshtarang project spreading awareness on reading using Tulika's books in very unusual ways, we wanted to know all about it!This ‘reading writing enhancement programme’, as a...
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Guthli Has Wings: Q & A with Author-Illustrator Kanak Shashi
“Why do you keep saying I’m a boy when I’m a girl?” Guthli asks her mother. Tulika's latest picture book, Guthli Has Wings by Kanak Shashi, is a compellingstory about gender identity. Framed by vibrant...
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Authors of 'The Tenth Son' interact with young readers
"What is fiction?"The fourth graders had insisted on joining the conversation meant for the fifth and sixth graders at Redwood Montessori School. As Ashish tried to explain the word fiction to a...
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Journeys that shaped a nation
Foreward from Devika Cariapa's India Through People: 25 Game Changers India as a country is something of a wonder. Think about it. So many ethnic groups, religions and cultures, and hundreds of...
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Growing with Picture Books – Notes so far
Author-illustrator Niveditha Subramaniam shares interesting experiences from her journey with Tulika in this delightfully-written guest post.Children often ask for the same book to be read again and...
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Following the Friend of Numbers: Q and A with Satwik Gade
Our hot off the press picture book Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers written by Priya Narayanan and illustrated by Satwik Gade, follows the singular fascination of a mathematical genius. In the...
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"I often sit and wonder why I was drawn towards Ramanujan’s story"
Our hot off the press picture book Srinivasa Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers written by Priya Narayanan and illustrated by Satwik Gade, follows the singular fascination of a mathematical genius. In the...
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"I'd like children to feel the joy, because that’s what Zakir Hussain is about"
Our hot off the press picture book Zakir and His Tabla - Dha Dhin Na by award-winning author and illustrator, Sandhya Rao and Priya Kuriyan, introduces children to a musical maestro, whose busy fingers...
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A Book is a Bee: Review by Myth Aunty
Every once in a happy while we come across something that elevates one of our books (and our hearts) to unexpected heights. We always loved the possibilities that A Book is a Bee held out, but just...
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Uncle Nehru, Please Send an Elephant!: A review by Myth Aunty
Some books are born of serendipity. When we chanced upon an article in The Caravan about Nehru’s unique ‘elephant diplomacy’, we saw sitting in it a charming story for children. We’d been wanting to...
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Parthiban's Dream: A review by Shefali Ganesh
While some books are pacy and thrilling, some are rich, slow and unputdownable. Very few, not only fall in one of these categories but also act as an escape from reality. Historical fiction trumps that...
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Happy Pride Month: Three cheers to diversity, inclusion and love!
This month, along with our dear young readers, parents, educators and patrons, we are celebrating diversity, and honouring pride. We'd like to give a huge shout-out to our authors, illustrators,...
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'Being aware is the first step towards gender equality': Excerpts from...
With gender issues hitting the news hotspots more and more, there are questions and doubts, and the answers are covered by a smog of stereotype and convention. How do teenagers make sense of all...
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'Fiercely fun, madly morose and prone to spontaneous combustion': An extract...
For every moment of clarity, young people are faced with several others filled with anger, confusion and self-doubt. Our Mayil Ganeshan has all the confusion and confidence of adolescence too. She...
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Nurturing diversity, spreading the wings of love: An excerpt from 'Blue and...
"Sometimes the quietest affirmation is the most powerful, and nurturing difference, the greatest love of all," writes a reviewer on Goodbooks.in. As the world grows increasingly diverse, how can we...
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Celebrating Pride: Embracing differences, building acceptance and fostering...
“A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colours because it knows it is beautiful inside out,” says a Canadian philosopher. Introducing gender indentities, diversity and pride into a child’s life...
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Happy Parent's Day: A whole lotta love for all the pet, plant and human...
‘Appreciate all parents throughout the world’ read this year’s global theme for Parents’ Day. Looking beyond the conventional notions of father-mother parenting, we’re recognising and celebrating all...
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World Nature Conservation Day 2021: Wonder, Understand, Care, Save!
World Nature Conservation Day 2021Books that help a child * Wonder * Understand * Care * Save * It’s a journey through sky and sea, land and rivers, to meet animals, birds and people,in an earth...
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Friendship Day Sing Along!
What are friends made of? This Friendship Day (1 August) we dip into Talking Tales from Tulika,our lively collaboration with Spotify, to discover the secret to that bond of joy.The specially composed...
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