Where's my bear?" asks a little girl as soon as she comes home from school. But... he's missing! Where could he be? So she sets off to find him, knocking on the door of each apartment in her building. As she climbs higher and higher, she meets all kinds of people, makes a lot of new friends, and sees some strange sights... but what about her bear? Will she find him?
A child's quest turns into a wonderful adventure that literally unfolds, step ...
THE PHANTOM TAILOR The Prince of Wales, later George IV, is probably the most written-about of all British monarchs, and his excesses, his debts and the huge sums that he expended on his wardrobe are legendary. It is therefore strange that the man who was the Prince's tailor for over thirty-two years, and his principal tailor for over half of that time, should have been named, and then only in passing, in just two other books. The reason why L...
Captain Coconut, who proclaims he can solve any mystery large or small, is called in to investigate the case of the missing bananas. He soon finds himself on a slippery trail of peels and missing numbers. Anushka Ravishankar, India's best known writer of nonsense verse, is at her best in this absurd yet perfectly logical tale, which gently satirises the very form that it uses. British-Indian artist Priya Sundram's collage art brings together e...
Take me to the city, " the young girl whispers to the train, as it passes her dusty village. Her name is Teju. She is now a middle-aged woman, a migrant worker-turned-artist, and in this book, she reflects on her incredible journey from poverty into the rich inner world of art.
This book of richly detailed drawings, featuring Teju's self-taught style of lines and dots, celebrates the life of a gentle, spirited woman who continues to paint her ...
The Boy Who Speaks in Numbers is a darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war. Set in Sri Lanka, the events it narrates could equally happen elsewhere - in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers and guns do not differentiate between adults and children. Mike Masilamani's ironic narrative centres around an unnamed boy, who is at home with numbers rather than words. Along with a constantly chattering - and prophetic cow - ...
This book calls for a re-imagining of global picture book history: with the former Soviet Union at the centre of this narrative web. The result of an unusual collaboration between India and Lithuania, the book looks at two different global impacts of the Soviet picture book enterprise. At a particular period in Indian history, cheaply available Soviet picture books, in English and vernacular translations, changed the way Indian children read. ...
From a fish waiting to be born, to the beginning of art and the necessity of death. lore from the Gond tribal community in central India abounds with stories of origins, transformations and ends. Celebrated Gond artist Bhajju Shyam now gathers together these tales for the first time. By linking together these tales for the everyday, he expresses the essence of each myth in ten sequential images. This extraodinary visual narrative of cyclical t...
Fat cats, brat cats, hurried cats, worried cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls... I Like Cats emerges from the brushstrokes of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India. Hand bound with a silk screened cover, this book features an impressive gallery of irresistible felines across a variety of Indian tribal art traditions, and comes with a framable screenprint. A book to delight art lovers, cat lovers and artsy cat lovers! Carrying...
This quintessentially Indian version of a much loved children's classic features art from the Patua scroll tradition of Bengal, India. Carlo Collodi's original Italian text centres on a marionette who escapes his wooden fate and has many adventures, including a stint at sea in the stomach of a shark. This Indian version is abridged from Carol Della Chiesa's well-known English translation, and illustrated by awardwinning scroll painting Swarna ...
Sold in every road-side booth, matchboxes are part of daily life in India. Curious, hilarious and visually stunning, matchbox labels come in a staggering variety of designs. Inspired variations on successful labels are an accepted part of the
matchbox world, deliciously turning the whole notion of branding upside down. Matchbook showcases over 500 quirky members of this extended family, from the personal collection of Mumbaibased designer Shah...
