March Blog-Rolling – Part 1

Daily News Analysis (DNA) writes about audiobooks and the reading process in an insightful, detailed article. Read it here.

For more information on the subject, do read two notes from Karadi Tales director, C. P. Viswanath, on audiobooks and reading.

Also read his piece in the Times of India on multilingualism. Pratham Books showcases this piece on their blog here. Tulika responds to this piece with their own take on language learning here.

Do take a look at our website to read more about Karadi Path and language learning in the classroom!

And did you know that our very own Sanjay Dutt has a huge, loyal fan base in Germany? Take a look at this blog post by Ingrid Diwali Zellner. She reviews The Monkeys and the Capseller and Monkeys on a Fast, two titles narrated by Sanjay Dutt in the ‘Will You Read With Me?’ series by Karadi Tales.

Time Out Mumbai reviews Super Hathaman (written by Kaushik Viswanath, illustrated by Chetan Sharma, narrated by Jaaved Jaaferi and set to music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and 3 Brothers & A Violin). Do read the review here!

Be sure to read this write up on the launch of the book!

You can pick up all these titles and more from the ‘Will You Read With Me’ series here.

Back at Saffron Tree, our favourite website on children’s literature, ChoxBox refers to a Karadi Rhymes song in a review of Meera’s Friends, the Trees. Take a look at the post at Saffron Tree and the cross-post at Life is a box of chocolates.

And at Pratham Books, ChoxBox writes a guest post where she talks about the Bandar Bindas Bandar compilation of Karadi Tales. You can read the cross-post at her blog as well.

At the Scholastic-Aviva Storytelling Night in Chennai on 19 February 2010, two Karadi authors, Shobha Viswanath and Kaushik Viswanath, read from The Seventh Kozhakattai, a hilarious soon-to-be-published story from Karadi Tales. Read a review of the night! And check our website regularly, because the book will be out soon!