No Distractions!

Someone recently sent us this video of a child watching ‘Eid is Here’ from Karadi Rhymes on his father’s phone. His mother refuses to believe that the hyperactive child can sit without being distracted. So she keeps trying to distract him. But the boy’s attention never wavers from the video and the rhyme.  It’s absolutely adorable!…

Rumours in Korea!

You know how a rumour spreads from person to person? Well, now it looks like The Rumour from Karadi Tales is spreading from country to country! That’s right. This hilarious story written by Anushka Ravishankar and illustrated by Kanyika Kini is now travelling to Korea! Earlier, we showed you the Korean editions of The Lizard’s Tail and…

Bookaroo 2010

If you’ll be in Delhi this November, be sure to check out Karadi Tales at Bookaroo on 27 and 28 November! On 27 November: 12:00 to 01:00: Art workshop at Crafty Corner with Malavika P. C. 04:00 to 05:00: Jamming with actor Jaaved Jaaferi at the Stage On 28 November: 11:00 to 12:00: Collage-making workshop at…

Auf Wiedersehen, Karadi!

In October 2010, Shobha Viswanth and Manasi Subramaniam represented Karadi Tales at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010. Here’s a quick report! In Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 earlier this month, we experienced a very unique sort of joy: the joy of showing off our wonderful collection of picture books to people from all…

Submissions to Karadi Tales

At Karadi Tales, we get a lot of queries from writers and illustrators who want to work with us. And we’re always keen to explore these possibilities. But the volume of queries we receive can be quite overwhelming for our editorial team sometimes. Replying indvidually and making sure we have everything we need gets to…

AfterSchool Convocation

We’re proud and delighted to announce that the first batch of Karadi Tales AfterSchool has graduated! Our warmest congratulations to all the Karadi kids and teachers at Sunny Smiles, our AfterSchool centre located in Navi Mumbai. Ms. Pratima Rao and the kids of Sunny Smiles Ms. Pratima Rao, who runs the AfterSchool programme at Sunny…

Karadi-Readers

Somebody sent us the picture below recently… We have no idea who this little bundle of joy is, but we’re sort of in love with him. So here’s what we’re thinking. Send us a picture of a child reading a Karadi Tales book. It could be any child – your child, your neighbour’s child, a…

Karadi Tales on Saffron Tree

Saffron Tree is our favourite website on children’s content. We love the multicultural focus it has and the wonderful resources it provides for parents and teachers – and even children! Karadi has recently made two appearances on this wonderful blog. Take a look! A review of Listening to Poetry:  ‘The books have companion CDs and…