Radhika Menon is an Indian publisher. She is the founder of Tulika Books, which was started by her publishing business in 1996. Sandhya Rao is one of the finest writers for children in India. Her books have won awards and accolades: My Friend the Sea won the Ambitious Children's Book Project award at the Berlin Children and Youth Literature Festival, 2005. My Mother's Sari was chosen as an Outstanding International Book, 2007, by the United States Board for Books for Young People (USBBY) and the Children's Book Council. In 1996, she joined Radhika Menon to create multilingual books for children at a time when independent children's publishing in India was nascent. She has written more than 20 books.Kshitiz Sharma came to Tulka as a student of communication design from the Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune. His illustrations for Oluguti Toluguti: Indian Rhymes to Read and Recite further liven up the vibrant and eclectic spirit of an oral tradition in this must-have collection. Welcome to the world of Oluguti Toluguti - and kosuguti too! it is a world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches and hatttima tim tims. Listen to the birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. Watch pom pom motor cars and chuk chuk trains go by. Meet Tuaan -Tueen and Rolenga and Suraiyya. Play in the rain falling chham chham chham and dance thai thaka thaka with a crane standing on one leg. Meet Ammas and Abbus and Sister Moon. It is a chemma chekka world of dam padam pappadams and kahbdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more brought alive by Kshitiz Sharma's energetic and endearing illustrations. The 54 rhymes in 18 Indian languages celebrate the richness and vitality of India's multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English capture the sounds and rhythms of the original languages, which also appear alongside. For those who want to know how to read, there are transliterations in Roman script (of English) and Devanagari (of Hindi).
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