Trees are so much a part of our daily lives, whether we take them for granted or find ourselves fighting for their survival: so it is perhaps unsurprising that there are many stories from all over the world that feature trees, woods or forests as a central theme or ‘character’… … Continue reading ...
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By: Aline Pereira,
on 2/1/2011
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Black History Month~ Canada
African American History Month~ USA
National African American Read-in~ USA
The Katha Chitrakala Award (Excellence in Children’s Book Illustrations) Winners Announced~ India
The Golden Age of the Picture Book: 1920s & 1930s – History’s Message to Children~ ongoing until Feb 6, Tokyo, Japan
The 11th Annual National Storytelling Week~ ongoing until Feb 5, United Kingdom
Kolkata Book Fair~ ongoing until Feb 6, Kolkata, India
Tales in the Garden Festival~ ongoing until Feb 12, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mirror, an Exhibition by Children’s Author and Artist Jeannie Baker~ ongoing until Feb 13, Australia
2011 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award~ submissions accepted until Feb 25, United Kingdom
International Youth Library Exhibit: The Fabulous World of John Kilaka, Pictures and Drawings by a Tanzanian Artist~ ongoing until Feb 28, Munich, Germany
Entries Accepted for The Growing up Asian in America Contest~ ongoing until Mar 10, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 PBBY-Alcala Prize~ submissions accepted until Mar 30, Philippines
International Youth Library Presents Walls: A Book and an Exhibition~ ongoing until Apr 5, Munich, Germany
International Youth Library Exhibit: Manga From Japan~ ongoing until Apr 5, Munich, Germany
Making Books Sing Presents a One-Woman Play Based on The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucía Gonzalez~ ongoing until spring, New York, NY, USA
Partners in Wonder: Selections from the Collection of Jane Yolen~ ongoing until May 1, Amherst, MA, USA
Look! The Art of Australian Picture Books Today~ ongoing until May 29, Melbourne, Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibit: Real and Imaginary: Three Latin American Artists – Raúl Colón, David Diaz and Yuyi Morales~ ongoing until May 29, Chicago, IL, USA
By: Aline Pereira,
on 10/5/2010
In her Personal View for our current issue of PaperTigers, Uma Krishnaswami ponders some of the questions that have come her way as a writer recently. Make sure you head on over to the main website to read the whole article; in the meantime, here’s the introduction. I found her pondering over the word ’swale’ particularly fascinating as I live not too far from Swaledale in the UK – and it certainly catches a lot of rain too! – could there be a connection?
Four years ago, an uncle of mine, D.V. Sridharan, started the crazy, impossible, madcap project, of restoring a wasteland in a rural area near the city of Chennai in India, and turning it into a sustainable farm. The reason this has anything to do with my own crazy, impossible, madcap occupation, writing books for children, is that his endeavor too had to do with words.
Words like “swale”: Roll it on your tongue. How round and beautiful it is. How it creates a resonance in the air. Swale. A low tract of land, a swale follows the contour line, and can catch water when it rains. Holding the rush of a monsoon shower, the swale in turn recharges underground water sources so that in the dry season, wells can remain refreshed. Swale. The thing is as magical as its name.
The name of that restoration project is “point Return.” The capitals are intentionally placed, intentionally withheld. The point, Sridharan says, is to return. To come back again and again to the places and the ideas that give us sustenance and hope, that are generative and regenerative in nature, that keep us going, that lead to a larger sense of who “we” are.
Story does this too. Thinking of story as cyclical in nature rather than linear, with a beginning, middle and end, changes everything. It stops me from rushing after answers, grabbing the first one that comes along. It allows me instead to live with questions.
I am happy to say that I have managed to make a career out of living with questions.
As I said, do read the rest of the article, in which Uma talks about her latest picture-book, Out of the Way! Out of the Way! (illustrated by her near-namesake, Uma Krishnaswamy, Tulika Books, 2010), which certainly provides scope for lots of questions, and gives a tantalising look ahead at her forthcoming middle-grade novel The Grand Plan to Fix Everything (Atheneum Books, due ot 2011) – and then pay a visit to Uma’s wonderful blog, Writing with a Broken Tusk.
By: Aline Pereira,
on 6/21/2010
Newly published Out of the Way! Out of the Way! by Uma Krishnaswami and illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy (Tulika Books, 2010) begins its blog tour today at Educating Alice, where you can read her students’ reviews of the book; and Saffron Tree, where there’s an intriguing Q&A with (writer) Uma, as well as the book title in all of its available languages/scripts…
Also, do read Uma’s explanation of the book’s format – I found it fascinating…
And we can’t wait to be hosting Out of the Way! Out of the Way! on Wednesday. Don’t miss it!
Here’s the whole schedule (I’ll update links to the actual posts as the week progresses):
Monday 21 June:
Educating Alice
Saffron Tree
Tuesday 22 June:
Chicken Spaghetti
Through the Tollbooth
Wednesday 23 June:
Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind
Here at PaperTigers!
Thursday 24 June:
Brown Paper
Plot Whisperer
Friday 25 June:
Notes from New England
Back to Saffron Tree for an interview with Uma Krishnaswamy
Saturday 26 June:
Scribbly Katia
Jacket Knack (Carol Brendler)
Sunday 27 June:
Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
The Drift Record
