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The London Jungle Book

Bhajju Shyam, Gita Wolf, Sirish Rao
Bhajju Shyam – a brilliant artist from the Gond tribe in central India – was commissioned to paint the walls of an Indian restaurant in London, and spent two months in the city. The book that emerged from the journey is a visual travelogue of his first encounter with a western metropolis. With radical innocence and great sophistication, Bhajju brings the signs of the Gond forest to bear on the city, turning London into an exotic jungle.

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Weight 450.0 g
Dimensions 270 × 210 mm
ISBN

978-81-92317-12-0
Pages

48
Printing

Offset-printed
Binding

Hardcover
Foreign Rights Sold

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Dutch

Mets & Schilt Uitgevers & Oxfam Novib
French

Éditions Syros
Italian

Adelphi Edizioni
Korean

LIGEM
Portuguese (Brazil)

Editora Cosac Naify
Spanish (Mexico & Spain)

Editorial Sexto Piso
HSN Code

49030010

USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List, 2015

Semi-finalist, Independent Publisher Awards (Multicultural Non-Fiction), 2006

Sunday Herald

His art transforms the streets, pubs… into strange bestiaries... and disarmingly spins the west's anthropological gaze back on itself.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette, USA

The London Jungle Book serves as a charming volley of Kipling’s perspective, as Shyam depicts London as its own kind of jungle.

Brain Pickings

A highly symbolic, almost semiotic visual travelogue and a work of remarkable philosophical sensitivity.

Kyoorius Magazine

Beautiful visual diary … turns London into an exotic bestiary inhabited by many gigantic creatures: Dog-buses...bat-Londoners...

Noodle

An Alice in Wonderland for the modern world … an invitation to look at the mundane details of our daily lives with new eyes of wonder.
Bhajju Shyam

Bhajju Shyam

Bhajju Shyam belongs to the Gond tribe of artists—a community of highly visual story-tellers—from Madhya Pradesh in India. His captivating art keeps the symbolic density of the Gond style, bringing to it the intelligence and clarity of his own vision. The versatile artist has received international acclaim since his runaway success in 2003 with The London Jungle Book. Click here to discover his other Tara Books.

Gita Wolf

Gita Wolf

Gita Wolf started Tara Books as an independent publishing house based in India. An original and creative voice in contemporary Indian publishing, she is known for her interest in exploring and experimenting with the form of the book. She has written over twenty books for children and adults. Several have won major international awards and been translated into multiple languages. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.

Sirish Rao

Sirish Rao

Sirish Rao is one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary Indian writing. He has authored more than fifteen books, ranging from novels and children’s books to retellings of myths and collections of pop art. Several of his titles have won international awards. His writing reflects his interests in nature, mountaineering, travel and the oddities of language.Click here to discover his other Tara Books.

Rathna Ramanathan

Rathna Ramanathan

Designer Rathna Ramanathan has steered the design philosophy of Tara since the very beginning. In the process, she can be said to have pioneered innovative children’s book design in India. Her main interest is in typography as well as in changing the form of the book. She runs minus9, her own graphic design studio, and is currently the Head of Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London. Click here to discover her other Tara Books.

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