Children's book from Karadi Tales

This is another book from India that we enjoy at our home. This one is published by Karadi Tales.

The Monkey King & The Blue Jackal - Folktales in Folk Art

The folk art illustrations in this book are brilliant. The book actually has a small description of the types of artworks used. The first story 'The Monkey King' has a combination of folk arts called Cheriyal, Mithila and the other story 'The Blue Jackal' has Warli painting inspired artwork.

There is also a brief description in the book about Jataka and Panchatantra from where the stories hail from.

I have fallen in love with the illustrations in this book, especially the Warli artwork in the Blue Jackal story. Its stupendous.

Children's books we love from Tulika Publishers

Here are some books that we have enjoyed reading at our household, from Tulika Publishers (their Wikipedia page has their official website) in India.

'Flower' - by Sandhya Rao and pictures by Ashok Rajagopalan, featuring 'Thumb Thumb Thambi', the thumb print boy, is a dear one. My son got this as a gift when were in India in 2009. We have since then sampled few of the books published by them and these are the favorites.

'My mother's sari' also by Sandhya Rao is an ode to the childhood memories of saris.

'Junior Kumbhakarna' by Arundhati Venkatesh, is fun. The boy Kukku in the book goes to bed listening to Kumbhakarna story from his appa and wakes up asking - 'where are the laddus?'.

Mala's silver Anklets by Annie Besant and Gajapati Kulapati Kalabalooosh! by Ashok Rajagopalan are delightful as well.

The books have a taste of India that we enjoy.