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Free Comic Book Weekend Starts Today
Attention comic book lovers!Comic Con India is hosting the Free Comic Book Weekend from 6th-8th June, 2015.Via Business StandardA mix of iconic and contemporary comics sourced from over 100 publishers...
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Meet the Author: Arefa Tehsin
From flying autos to giant endangered birds! Let's catch up with the creator of the fantastic elephant bird: Arefa Tehisn. A wild-life enthusiast, traveller and author who also happens to be the...
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Digital Diaries : How to Meet (or Move) Targets
Wow, it is already a week since we posted the first Digital Diaries update. With the launch of our digital platforms inching closer, we've been busier than usual. Purvi, Yamini and Payoshni spill the...
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Meet the Ilustrators: Sonal Goyal and Sumit Sakhuja
Earlier this week, we chatted with Arefa Tehsin - the author of the book 'The Elephant Bird'. And now, the magicians who breathe life into the text take the stage : our beloved illustrators! The...
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Book Review : Chuskit Goes to School
Menaka S reviews Chuskit goes to school (written by Sujataha Padmanabhan and illustrated by Madhuvanti Anantharajan ) on PlusMinus’n’More.Chuskit Goes to School by Sujatha Padmanabhan is another of the...
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Our Stories Fly into a Coursebook
Towards the end of December 2013, we received a mail from the ELT Schools team of Orient BlackSwan about 2 stories they wanted to use in a coursebook designed to teach language skills to kids. We were...
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Digital Diaries: Parties Come in All Shapes and Forms
Last week, this really amazing thing happened at Pratham Books. We picked a day on which the entire PB team - sitting in different parts of the country - spent a few hours proofreading the stories that...
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Indie Booksellers in India
We are enjoying the posts that Duckbill Books is sharing for ‪#‎IndependentBooksellersWeek‬. Sayoni Basu mentions all their favourite stores in this article about indie booksellers in India who are...
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50 new books in 50 days!
Right, so we like cinematic headlines, but we only use them when the news we're reporting is worthy of the drama. And since we've really found 50 ways to get into children's worlds in fifty days, this...
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Help India's Children Read with Donate-a-Book
We are finally happy to share a project we've been working on for more than a year. Presenting *drum roll please* ...Donate-a-Book : A Crowdfunding Platform for Books'Donate-a-Book' is a unique...
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The Journey of a Unique Crowdfunding Platform: Donate-a-Book
Less than 20 hours to go for the launch and I was still making banners and editing the emailers. Time was less and the to-do list wasn't getting any shorter. Will I finish on time? Will we get a good...
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Digital Diaries : What We Say and What We Mean
Purvi Shah send us news for this week's edition of Digital Diaries (with a little help from Yamini) ...With StoryWeaver's launch just around the corner, our team's collective voice has gotten louder...
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Sport a New Look with the July Calendar
Last month we started sharing our calendar pages online so that anyone could add a dash of whimsy to their screen. This year's calendar was illustrated by Priya Kuriyan and steps into an India of...
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Say Hello on Instagram!
And we've jumped on to a new platform!We are rather late to the Instagram party, but we've finally arrived! One of the things we were highly excited to see was the diverse work of the illustrators who...
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Digital Diaries: The Growing Tribe
Over the last couple of months, several people have been contributing to the general health and progress of StoryWeaver, our upcoming, open-source story publishing platform. People from within the...
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Announcing the Results of the Retell, Remix and Rejoice Contest
The results of the Retell, Remix and Rejoice contest are finally here! The judging this year took a long, long time because of the number of entries. This year we received a total of 99 entries! Yes,...
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Paplu became Ramudu
A few months ago, we spotted some intriguing pictures on our PBChamp Priya Muthukumar's Facebook page (Storipur). Priya mentioned that she had taken Paplu to meet some kids in a village. The pictures...
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Sometimes one needs a little extra..
Don't we all? The extra room to keep those old books, that extra space in bed to stretch to our heart's content, the extra cake for a midnight snack...A few of our friends on Donate-a-Book also needed...
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Books donated by you have reached their first destination!
We were giddy with joy when we got an email from Team IMC confirming that the books had reached the bridge school they had raised funds for! The email had a few pictures too where the big smiles on the...
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Travel to the Seaside with This Month's Calendar Page
August is here and it is one of our favourite months as we dive right into the happy madness of coordinating our popular #PBChamps campaign. While we will be busy this entire month, we will also be...
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