shyamala's world

  In association with Tulika Books and EdelGive , Parag Tata Trust is initiating a Workshop on Creative nonfiction for Younger Children . This four day workshop for authors and illustrators will be held in Chennai next month. Swaha Sahoo answered a few queries  about the upcoming workshop. Swaha leads the Parag initiative at Tata Trusts. Enabling libraries and access to good books for all children is her passion. She reads books, meets readers and is continuously experimenting with ways to enable children to read for pleasure and become lifelong readers. 1.In the recent past Parag Trust has facilitated the publication of picture books, set up libraries, awarded illustrators of children’s books, held competitions and workshops for librarians and teachers. Now Parag Trust is initiating a workshop exclusively with the content creators of children books. How does this workshop fit into the future plans of Parag Trust? Under Parag’s book development work we aim to enc...

  MultistoryLearning have instituted BICW awards to recognise the best Indian authors writing for children.   Naresh R, director of Multistory learning, shared more details about the awards. Naresh carries a large black bag everywhere he goes. Some say that it contains strange artefacts, broken phrases, and forgotten songs. He sleeps while he moves. He trades his stories for bread and soup. Why were the BICW AWARDS instituted? Tell us a bit about the people/institution who conceptualised the awards. The Best of Indian Children’s Writing (BICW) – Contemporary Awards grew from the need to curate a set of stand-out, age-appropriate books to distribute in schools. In 2017, we (the team from Multistory Learning Private Limited) reached out to a variety of Indian publishers to ask if we could procure the titles that we thought worked best for the themes and age groups that were a part of the reading list of the Book Lovers’ Program for Schools (BLPS). We c...