Children authors and their events in December, 2016

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Date
Author
Event
Venue
City
December 2
 Paro Anand
Author Interaction
Vidya school
Gurgaon
December 2
Deepak Dalal
Author Interaction
Vidya Niketan school
Bengaluru
December 3
Hippocampus
 Bengaluru



Peek a book litfest, Mumbai
Date
Author
Event
Time
 December 10
Lavanya Karthik
Lion’s feast
11.45-12.45 pm
Chatura Rao
Story creating workshop  : Gone Grandma
2.45pm-3.45 pm
Payal Kapadia
Horrid high
1.30-2.30
Jane D suza
Become a super hero for one day
10.30-11.30
Tulika Maheshwari
Sashu Pashu kashu
11.45-12.45
December 11
Natasha Sharma
Princess easy Pleasy
10.30 pm-11.30 pm
Shabnam minawalla
Lucky girl!
11.45 pm-12.45 pm
Rustom Dadachanji
Fun with Ravana
2.45pm-3.45 pm
Sushree Mishra
 Night monsters
4pm -5pm


Read to Lead( Young Readers’ conclave, December 18,2016, Ahmedabad)
Author

Time
Deepa Agarwal
Story telling session
10 am-11 am
Creative writing workshop for 8 yr olds
1 pm -2 pm

Creative writing workshop for 10 yr olds
2.30 pm-3.30 pm
Ranjit Lal
 How I write, what I write
1 pm -2 pm
Read aloud activity
2.30 pm-3.30 pm
Author Talk : In conversation with budding minds
4.45 pm-5.30 pm
Priya  Narayanan
Story telling session
11.30 am-12.30 pm
Short story writing   workshop
1pm -2pm
Short story writing   workshop
2.30 pm-3.30 pm

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