Welcome to the world ofOluguti Toluguti—a world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches, and hattima tim tims. Listen to birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. 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, khabdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more! This collection includes 54 traditional and familiar childhood rhymes in 18 languages drawn from across India. It celebrates different childhoods as well as the richness and vitality of India’s multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English echo the cadences and rhythms of the originals (which also appear alongside, with transliterations in Roman/English and Devanagari/ Hindi scripts).
Radhika Menonis an Indian publisher. She is the founder of Tulika Books, which was started by her publishing business in 1996.
Sandhya Raois one of the finest writers for children in India. Her books have won awards and accolades:
My Friend the Seawon the Ambitious Children’s Book Project award at the Berlin Children and Youth Literature Festival, 2005.
My Mother’s Sariwas 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 Sharmacame 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 Recitefurther liven up the vibrant and eclectic spirit of an oral tradition in this must-have collection.
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