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Author & Illustrator: Prabhjot Kaur
ISBN 81-87649-94-1 [english]
ISBN 81-89020-13-7 [hindi]
Size: 10” x 8”
Pages: 32
Price: Rs 75 [english]

Rs 50 [hindi]
2004

Daddoo’s Day Out
(Runner Up, 10th Noma Concours)

Daddoo, the little frog, decides to do something different on her day out ...
A lively book that celebrates friendship and introduces children to the world of animals, colours and sizes.

Prabhjot Kaur wrote and illustrated this book which won her the runner-up prize in the 10th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations. She is presently in England continuing her studies and working as an illustrator.

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Author & Illustrator: Enrique Lara Robayo and Luis Fernando Garcia Guayara
ISBN: 81-87649-88-7 [hb]
ISBN 81-89020-07-2 [pb]
ISBN 81-89020-70-6 [hindi]
Size: 5” x 8”
Pages: 32
Price: Rs 100 [hb], . Rs 70 [pb], . Rs 55 [hindi]
2005

Leaves

“From the window of my room I see amazing things ...” Leaves zooms into the colour and magic of nature. A book that can be read and enjoyed by everyone from the very young to the old! The artwork in Leaves won an Encouragement Prize from the NOMA Concours for Picture Book Illustrations in 2000.

Enrique Lara Robayo studied graphic design at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He loves to write and illustrate and works as a freelance illustrator and as a university teacher.

Luis Fernando García Guayara studied graphic design at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has always enjoyed playing with plasticine. After his degree, he started teaching claywork and origami to children in his art classes. He also works as a freelance illustrator and college teacher.

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Author: Geeta Dharmarajan
Art by Bindia Thapar
ISBN 81-89020-28-5 [hb]
ISBN 81-89020-27-7 [pb]
ISBN 81-89020-35-8 [hindi]
Size: 11” x 8.5”
Pages: 32
Price: Rs 150 [hb], Rs 100 [pb], Rs 80 [hindi]
2005

The Magic Raindrop

Wouldn’t you love to read a story about something which is bigger than the Big, Bigger, Biggest that you have ever known?
Come join us ... Step into a wonderland of magical raindrops and unbelievable kites, fairytold by Geeta Dharmarajan and breathtakingly illustrated by Bindia Thapar.

Geeta Dharmarajan loves writing stories and fantasies for children. She conceived and edited a children’s magazine called Tamasha. Geeta was earlier one of the editors of Target, a magazine for children, and The Pennsylvania Gazette, the magazine of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania. She has 17 books and over 400 published pieces to her credit. She started Katha in 1988 and has been its principal team leader since then.

Bindia Thapar is a trained architect. She loves to illustrate and has been a designer and illustrator for various publishing houses. She is a visiting lecturer at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and is deeply committed to peace and environment issues. She lives in Delhi with her daughter.

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Author: Franz Hubner
Art by Mario Kessler
ISBN 81-87649-93-3 [English]
ISBN 81-89020-09-9 [hindi]
Size: 5” x 8”
Pages: 32
Price:  Rs 65 [English], Rs 45 [hindi]
2004

Mo...aning Morris

A delightful little book that helps us realize that adapting to other people is easier than we think. And fun too!

Franz Hubner is a German writer for children, whose books have been published all over the world.
Mario Kessler began to draw and paint while in school. He likes painting animals for children.

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Author: Meenakshi Bharadwaj
Art by Sonali Biswas
ISBN 81-87649-96-8 [hb]
ISBN 81-89020-05-6 [pb]
ISBN 81-81-89020-98-6 [hindi]
Size: 10” x 8”
Pages: 32
Price: Rs 120 [hb], Rs 95 [pb], Rs 120 [hindi]
2004

One Lonely Unicorn

Runner Up, Noma Concours, 2000.
Honourable Mention, Biennial of Asian Illustrators, Japan, 2002.

A splendidly illustrated and innovative book that introduces the concept of numbers through a story. Children will love the unicorn and her many animal friends!

She thrills to the mysterious sounds of the night and dreams off to sleep with a still-sleepy dawn waiting outside her window, somewhere in the hills of the Nilgiris. She says she can only write between midnight and 4 am. That’s Meenakshi Bharadwaj for you.

Sonali Biswas is a freelance illustrator based in Delhi. For this book, she is the recipient of The Chitra Katha Award 2003 for Outstanding Illustrations. She has also received the runner-up award from Noma Concours for Children’s Book Illustrations in 2000 and an honourable mention at the Biennial of Asian Illustrators, Japan in 2002.

Daddoo’s Day Out:

Does Daddoo’s Day Out remind you of the popular film, baby’s Day Out? This book, written and illustrated by Prabjhot Kaur is somewhere on the same lines and even won the Runner-Up Prize at the 10th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations!

The story revolves around Daddoo, a cute young frog, who lives in a small pond with her mother (Ma) and her friends. Her life goes on happily until one day when Daddoo gets bored of doing the same things everyday and decides that it was high time she went exploring into the outer world and made new friends.

The story is all about Daddoo’s day out in the world that lay beyond her small pond, where she meets other animals like a black snake, white swans, and an alligator! By the time she makes her escape from Mr Alligator, it becomes dark and even starts raining, leaving poor Daddoo miserable, under a mushroom’s umbrella. How Daddoo realizes her folly and how she gets back home is what the rest of the story is all about.

The story has illustrations in bright and bold colours that merge into each other to give an adventurous feel to the story. They are present in all pages and have been done in a very novel style, with a lot of lines in them. They are used to convey certain ideas that cannot actually be put forward with words alone and the language used through out the story is very lucid and easy to understand.

The story’s concept or more popularly called ‘the moral’ has been subtly expressed and clearly explains to the Gen-X, what a nightmare, leaving home at such a tender age, could turn out to be. The way in which Daddoo, at the end of her day out, says, “I want to go home!” strikes a chord with the readers and clearly portrays how lost a child can feel without the protection of his/her family and friends.

The author has taken the fact that children no longer want to stick to their roots, thanks to the increase in individualism in our society, and has spun a simple but impressive story that tells us what the consequences of such a rash decision can be.

Tips for parents and teachers:
A great read-aloud book to share with a young child.
A beginner’s book for children learning to read.
The story with its view of life in a small pond and the larger forest can be used as a supplementary reader in the classroom.

—The New Indian Express

Leaves:

Leaves zooms into the colour and magic of nature. A delightful book from the Colombian illustrators Enrique Lara Robayo and Luis Fernando Garcia Guayara, winners of the Encouragement Prize in the 12th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations. A book that can be read and enjoyed by everyone, from the very young to the very old!

—The Hindu

The Magic Raindrop:

A raindrop, a magical one, changes the course of the day.
Flying kites is fun. But, it can get adventurous too like it did for Seetu. It was just a raindrop — a truly magical one — that changed the course of her day. When Seetu takes her kite out to dry it begins to drift stealthily from her hands. Soon she realises that even without a string she could manoeuvre the kite up the sky. She pretends to tug at a make-believe string and the kite goes higher and higher, and what more, it grows bigger and bigger.

People rush out of their homes to fly their own kites, inspired by the big one, rather the biggest one there ever was — as huge as an aeroplane. And the village bears a festive look — people cheering and jumping joyfully beneath a multi-coloured sky.

The day is done and only Seetu and her brother Kittu are out in the moonlight, still flying the giant-size kite. What would happen if they bring it down? Will the kite still be as big, or become an ordinary one? Perplexed for a while, Seetu decides what to do. She is happy, and believes the kite will be too.

Breathtaking illustrations by Bindia Thapar are sure to keep the reader from putting the book down long after the story is done. The pictures in astounding colours bring the characters and the setting alive.

— The Hindu

Geeta Dharmarajan's The Magic Raindrop is a tale full of childhood fantasies and a yearning to break free. Using a metaphor of a kite, Geeta seems to suggest that all things are best left to their natural habitat.

Seetu and Kittu are siblings who, like many other children, own a colourful kite. With a twist of events, a big fat raindrop falls on the kite, and makes it grow so huge that it appears larger than life. Ultimately, when the kite grows too big to hold on, Seetu lets go off the strings, and it flies away to lands unknown.

The illustrations by Bindia Thapar brings to life the characters, and the multi-coloured kites that kiss the sky. The use of bright and bold shades of reds, blues and greens breathe life into the pages, and you can almost hear the swish of kites fluttering past you.

The last three pages of the book gives you an enlightening view into the traditions of kite flying all around the globe. Kites are not just flown for entertainment, the Thais and the Nepalese send kites up with secret prayers to the gods.

— The New Indian Express

One Lonely Unicorn:

Delightful illustrations make children learn counting by counting the animals in the forest. The one unicorn, the two birds, the three elephants...

— The Hindu