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Amid the publicity blaze of new novels by star authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga, the quiet launch of a new book on Delhi went unnoticed. Written and illustrated by Premola Ghose, Tales of Historic Delhi is that rare children’s book that focuses on a city. It has been published by Amber Books in association with Young Zubaan.
Tales of Historic Delhi: By Premola Ghose,Amber Books and Young Zubaan,64 pages, Rs 225.
“Besides textbooks, there have been almost no books in India that help children understand their cities,” says Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, a publishing consultant and critic who has been working on children’s and young adult literature since the 1990s. “It’s only in the past few years that such books are being produced and a market for them is being created.”In recent years, illustrated children’s books from publishing houses such as Puffin, Katha and Tulika, focusing on Indian mythological stories, have been selling well. There have also been books on cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore—indicative of an emerging trend of city-specific books for children. In further indication of how the market for young readers is growing, Bahrisons Booksellers in Delhi’s upscale Khan Market is opening a floor dedicated entirely to children’s books later this month.
Ghose’s stories engage the young reader in a tone descriptive of the city’s flavours, but not condescending or preachy, and come complete with paintings of colourful bazaars, kings, animals and tombs. “I wrote the way I always write, irrespective of whether the book is being targeted towards children or adults,” says Ghose, who works as head of programmes at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Her slim volume showcases Delhi as experienced by animals and birds, visiting the city from the forests of Ranthambore in Rajasthan. “Last year I’d made drawings on this theme for an exhibition. Later, I made up the stories around these images. I concentrated on what a tiger, a rabbit, a butterfly would think and say while loafing in Delhi.”
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A few years ago, author Kim Narisetti wrote two Delhi-centric books.Chennai City Map - News
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“We have worked it on a city-by-city basis. For instance Gandhi's visit to Chennai has been mapped in accordance to the time, date and location on the map,” said P Nag, director of NATMO, at the Geo Summit-2011 organised by the Sathyabhama University.
There is no success formula for children's writing, though, and there's no guarantee that a book on, say, Chennai, will find buyers beyond that city. Ravishankar admits that Tandon's book did better in Mumbai than in other cities.
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