Let’s Play On!

The Hindu profiles author Anshumani Ruddra, who has written two titles for Karadi Tales – Dorje’s Stripes and Crickematics!. Anshuman talks about the writing process and his deep connection with games and storytelling. And yes, that’s Dorje’s Stripes that he’s holding in the picture! Crickematics! is available at all leading bookstores and online book retailers in India. You…

Everything You always wanted to know about publishing but were afraid to ask

Publishing Perspectives publishes a two-part article on the Indian publishing industry by Akshay Pathak of the German Book Office New Delhi. It’s a great overview, offering several deep insights into a complex sector. Part 1: Publishing in India Today: 19,000 Publishers, 90,000 Titles, Many Opportunities Part 2: Publishing in India Today: Growing Imports/Exports, Territoriality, Piracy…

Karadi the Globetrotter

Books published by Karadi Tales have begun to travel the world. Several international publishers have picked up titles from the Karadi Tales catalogue of picture books and had them translated to make them available to children of the world. Our books now travel and are available in a number of different foreign editions. Here are…

Bilingual Books in SoBo

Sangeeta Bhansali, director of Vakils, Feffer & Simons Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai sent us the following email recently (on 17 June), and we’d like to share the email with you (mildly edited): Kahani Tree is a division of Vakils, Feffer and Simons Ltd. that promotes children’s books and is dedicated to inspire a life-long love…

From Blogosphere

A lovely article on our audiobooks from ‘Buzzing!’ writes: Many stories involve animals and carry a strong moral that a toddler can understand. A very cool element of Karadi Tales is that most of them come with an audio CD where the story is narrated in a very engaging manner. The voice of Karadi is…

Picture Books and Early Learning

Notes from Singapore Part 4: Our editor, Manasi Subramaniam, promises that this will be the last of her reminiscences on the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) 2011 held in Singapore last month.  I really wanted to share this with the children’s publishers, educators and young parents out there. One of the sessions I attended…