Kavita Singh Kale on the #6FrameStoryChallenge
The #6FrameStoryChallenge fever has caught on. We've already seen frames from 15 different illustrators and some illustrators have even sent in 2 stories. Currently, that amounts to more than 100 new...
View Article"Right Up The Alley of Creative Experimentation For Me" - Megha Vishwanath on...
As we draw closer to the end of the #6FrameStoryChallenge, we almost don't want this challenge to end. When Megha Vishwanath sent us her first story, she said :#6FrameStoryChallenge is right up the...
View ArticlePriya Nair Panicker Makes a 'Chilli' Mistake for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
Those of you who are following the Facebook event for the #6FrameStoryChallenge know that we promised to share Priya Nair Panicker's six frame story today. We are going to jump into Priya's cartoony...
View Article"Happy To Share My Works With Kids" - Sweta Roy Choudhury on the...
Over on the Facebook event page of the #6FrameStoryChallenge we've been witnessing how encouraging illustrators have been towards everyone whose work we've been posting. From likes to comments and...
View ArticleMultiple Ideas From A Word Wishlist : Paneendra Suresh's Submissions for the...
We received two diverse stories for the #6FrameStoryChallenge from the studio of Paneendra Suresh. The story of a singing bear took us to a dreamy world while just the name of the second story had us...
View ArticleRemix Away : Priya Kuriyan's Take On the #6FrameStoryChallenge
It is no secret how much we love Priya Kuriyan's work at Pratham Books. Priya Kuriyan's work crept into our office through a calendar she did for another organization. For months we stared at her...
View ArticlePune, Let Us Tell You A Story
The perfect weekend is here. Sakaal Times - Bokaroo is in town with a cart-full of stories and activities.Listen to Shobha Bondre tell you about Takloo who is always up to mischief, but full of good...
View ArticleThe #6FrameStoryChallenge Goes International With Yulianto Qin
We received our first international entry a few days ago - from Yulianto Qin in Indonesia. An amateur illustrator and architect, Yulianto loves working, illustrating and telling stories for/with...
View Article"The Concept of Idea-Sharing is One I Love" - Manjari Chakravarti on the...
When we spotted the first few frames of Manjari's first story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge, we were eager to see how the story would develop. The medium (collage) Manjari was using caught our eye and...
View ArticleA Loud Cheer (and Whistle) for the Illustrator Community
About two weeks ago, we asked illustrators to take the #6FrameStoryChallenge and donate their illustrations to Pratham Books' upcoming open-source story publishing platform. The challenge came to an...
View ArticleTwo Little Adventures for the #6FrameStoryChallenge : Sonal Goyal and Sumit...
The #6FrameStoryChallenge has officially come to an end (for those who missed it, we have a little note for you at the end of this post). With so many illustrations and stories to look at, the coming...
View ArticleSamidha Gunjal's Nature Inspired Narratives for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
One... two... three... - That's how many different stories Samidha Gunjal sent us for the #6FrameStoryChallenge. Samidha's narratives are closely related to nature, yet the different styles she chose...
View ArticleAnother Bear Joins the #6FrameStoryChallenge - Preeti Lata's Entry
For the #6FrameStoryChallenge, participants were asked to choose words form a word wishlist and weave a story together through their illustrations. Some words seemed to be more loved than others - and...
View ArticleShwetha Elisha's Minimalistic Take On The #6FrameStoryChallenge
Apart from bears, some other creatures seem to be equally popular on the #6FrameStoryChallenge. Can you guess what they are? Scroll through Shwetha Elisha's wordless story to find out what happens to...
View ArticleMithila Ananth Brings An Amateur Magician to the #6FrameStoryChallenge
The #6FrameStoryChallenge has led us to discovering so many things - different mediums, different styles of illustrators we already work with, new illustrators and much more. We believe that the...
View ArticleSunandita Mehrotra's Favourite Character Makes An Appearance on the...
When Sunandita Mehrotra talked about her work, she did say this - "I like creating fictional characters, of which bespectacled cats appear often." Little surprise then that her favourite character...
View Article"My Respect for Every Single Writer and Illustrator Just Doubled" - Vedavathi...
Little did we know that in the process of building this pool of illustrations for our open source story platform, we would already have kiddos helping us in an unknown way. Yesterday we shared a post...
View ArticleHow to Attribute An Image On A Birthday Cake
Most of our regular blog readers are probably wondering if we've stopped publishing the other stuff we used to earlier. We promise we'll be back to our regular publishing schedule soon - but for now we...
View ArticleBuy 1, Get 1 FREE - The Pratham Books Calendar
Yes, you read it right.The Pratham Books Calendar is now on a BUY 1, GET 1 FREE offer.Priya Kuriyan's illustrations make this a special calendar to not only enjoy during the year, but to savour for...
View ArticleMeet Our Friends at Neralu
Bangaloreans - an exciting festival to celebrate trees is coming up! Neralu 2015 is back and we can spot a few familiar names on the schedule.NERALU, meaning shade in Kannada, is a descriptive metaphor...
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