By Gita Wolf
All fairs are about making valuable professional connections… And yet there is something singular about the rich, lasting rewards that we’ve experienced from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair....
By V. Geetha
"Here are some stories about books that interestingly enough are also about memory: how do we preserve art traditions that are on their way out, how do people remember visual cultures that have shaped their lives, for better and worse…...
By Gita Wolf and Joëlle Jolivet
"When I came back from the hospital, I just drew a self-portrait… maybe to make sure that I was still alive? I think I drew one portrait every morning. It was very spontaneous, connected with the feeling of the day." This fantastic book was never thought of as a book, to begin with. It came together—literally—by accident....
By Anushka Ravishankar
I did not discover nonsense so much as recognise it with a shout of joy when I was almost twenty years old. What a waste of two decades! Of course, I had read nonsense as a child. I’d read the wickedly funny poems in the Alice books by Lewis Carroll and I knew some of Edward Lear’s gently silly poems and limericks. But I had no idea that nonsense was a respected literary genre. (Well, sort of respected.)...
