With apologies for a break in communication, we'd like to bring you our latest news. It has been an eventful couple of months – we've moved offices, received a major children's book award, held events in exotic places, and are delighted to announce several new releases.
NEW RELEASES
Children
The Churki-Burki Book of Rhyme By Gita Wolf & Durga Bai Childhood rhymes and songs relate a charmed tale of growing up in a tribal village in central India. Churki and Burki are two sisters who spend the day fishing in the river, driving the parrots from the corn field, gathering fruits, and endlessly playing with their friends...
The Mahabharatha: A child's viewBy Samhita Arni Originally in two parts, The Mahabharatha is now available in a well-priced single volume. Samhita Arni wrote and illustrated this version of the great epic when she was 12 years old. Featuring her own astonishing illustrations to the text, this best-selling book offers children and adults a fresh perspective on the timeless epic.
Art & Design Signature: Patterns in Gond Art By Gita Wolf, Bhajju Shyam & Jonathan Yamakami Never before seen in print, Signature features an array of stunning patterns from a range of Gond tribal artists of central India. Characteristic of this art are the teeming patterns that fill the surface of images. Each artist creates his or her own pattern or signature, with particular meanings.Signature is a feast of abstraction and an entirely original introduction to Gond art and artists.
EVENTS Do! wins BolognaRagazzi Award
A set of action verbs rendered in the traditional Warli style of art from western India, Do! is a picture book that can be used in an infinite number of ways. It is silk-screen printed on recycled kraft paper, recreating the original painting on the mud walls of village homes. The book received the prestigious BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award 2010 at world's largest book fair for children at Bologna, Italy. Publisher and author Gita Wolf received the Award on behalf of Tara on the 23rd of March 2010, at an award ceremony in the historic Sala Borsa in Bologna.
Professor Faeti, one of the judges, said that the book : "... features art that is of a purist, cubist character, reminiscent of Paul Klee. Do! is a book in which the concept ties together perfectly with the art...it is a unique whole, with a consistency, coherence and poetry that includes the design, paper, and cover."
Tara in Sicily
On the 16th and 17th of April, Gita Wolf of Tara was invited to Sicily by the municipality of the small town of Zafferana, near Catania, at the foot of the volcano Etna. The event was the annual Festo del Libro, festival of books, at the local primary school. The school in this town uses a remarkable system of learning from books - where young children learn language, art, history and geography from chosen picture books. Tara's THE VERY HUNGRY LION, published in Italian by Ippocampo as IL LEONE GOLOSONE, was one of those selected this year. Gita also presented Tara Books to an interested audience at 'Tempolibro', a specialist bookshop for children in Catania, Sicily.
LA Times Book Festival Jennifer Abel, Tara's representative in the US, presented Tara to a very appreciative audience at Los Angeles, at the LA Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus on the 24th and 25th of April 2010.
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A set of action verbs rendered in the traditional Warli style of art from western India, Do! is a picture book that can be used in an infinite number of ways. It is silk-screen printed on recycled kraft paper, recreating the original painting on the mud walls of village homes.
On the 16th and 17th of April, Gita Wolf of Tara was invited to Sicily by the municipality of the small town of Zafferana, near Catania, at the foot of the volcano Etna. Th
Gita also presented Tara Books to an interested audience at 'Tempolibro', a specialist bookshop for children in Catania, Sicily.
Jennifer Abel, Tara's representative in the US, presented Tara to a very appreciative audience at Los Angeles, at the LA Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus on the 24th and 25th of April 2010.