All you need to know about the inaugral BICW awards
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...