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Children Authors at events in February, 2017 Date Author Name Venue Time 3 rd Feb Deepa Agarwal Caravan to Tibet Scindia School, Gwalior 11am 4 th Feb Rani Lakshmi Bai 10 am Kalaghoda festival 2017, Mumbai   www.kalaghodaassociation.com 4 th Feb Shyamala Shanmugasundaram Mummy and me CSMVS Museum Gardens 2pm-2.50 pm Vinitha Ramchandani Read-y, Steed-y, Go CSMVS Museum Gardens 5pm-6.30 pm 10 th Feb Katie Bagli Wild Nature CSMVS Museum Gardens 5pm-6 pm 5 th feb Deepak Dalal Bird stories for children CSMVS Museum Gardens 12noon -1 pm 9 th Feb Rustom Dadachandji Fun with Ravana BNHS 10.15pm-11 am 10 th Feb Anushka Ravishankar Dhanak BNHS 4pm-5pm Loveleen Misra Yip aur Yanka, Holland ke do b...

Last week book curator, Sangeeta Bhansali hosted  the first Mumbai session of  Society of Children Books Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) at KahaniTree . Head of  Indian chapter for SCBWI, author and publisher, Anushka Ravishankar held an interactive session titled 'When an author meets a publisher.' She shared a few useful tips for children authors. Given below are the same. 1.Don’t stick to one publisher. 2.          Figure out what’s better for you – a big publisher with a great distribution system or a small publisher who nurtures your manuscript and you as a writer. 3.         Find the right editor; a good editor will understand your style and read your manuscript accordingly. 4.         Do your research before submitting your manuscript. Find out if your book is a right fit for the publisher. 5.          Follow the su...

Book curator, Sangeeta Bhansali of the newly expanded Kahani Tree played host to the inaugural session of Society for children book writers and illustrators (SCBWI) in Mumbai.  For over two hours, Author and publisher, Regional advisor of SCBWI, Anushka Ravishankar and children’s author, Natasha Sharma shared their experiences and answered questions in an interactive session titled, ‘When an author meets a publisher.’  “Things have really changed a lot in the past ten years. It’s a good time for Indian writers,” said Anushka Ravishankar.  From the status of ebooks, the importance of having an analytical mind to work on manuscripts, foreign rights, literary agents, the difference between an illustrated book and a picture book, she shared nuggets of information for the benefit of authors. She also revealed the reasons why it is not possible for publishers to provide marketing support for every author on their list, the journey of a manuscript in a publishing house...

(This interview is a piece from the November, 2016 issue of Kahani Takbak, a newsletter written by authors for children authors.  To subscribe to the newsletter click here  ) 1.What has prompted Duckbill to start this initiative now? Does the excellent performance by our sport stars in the recent Para Olympics have anything to do with it? At Duckbill, we believe in doing fun books which kids will want to read for pleasure, but we also like it if these books talk about dilemmas or problems that kids face. We believe that literature is one of the primary means through which we learn empathy and how to deal with the challenges that the world holds. So we have books where the themes, for example, of single parenthood, class, sexuality, bullying etc are also present. So, kids with special needs or problems was something else we are interested in. We published two books which feature protagonists with special needs--Zainab Sulaiman's  Simply Nanju-- or some kind...