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NURTURE resonates with Sandhya Rao
July 9th & 10th 2011
On a balmy July evening it might have been a scene straight out of a storybook page.
The little ones at Nurture Montessori School in Chennai had a very stimulating experience when the award winning and famous author Sandhya Rao read stories in her usual open, soulful expressive manner.
This was followed with some recommendations to parents on how to choose books for children and how to present it to them. It was a very interesting eye opener for parents. There was also a Children’s Book exhibition organized in the campus for the parents.
The children were engaged in learning activities like Pot painting, Collage and Origami.
About Sandhya Rao:
Raymond Williams speaks of culture as being not only what we live by, “it is also, in great measure, what we live for. Affection, relationship, memory, kinship, place, community, emotional fulfilment, intellectual enjoyment, a sense of ultimate meaning…” These are the key aspects that Sandhya touches on in her work with children and children’s books.
Sandhya Rao believes that translating stories from different cultures and sensibilities and reading them to children all over the world will help bring people together. “And once we have tasted each other’s food and spoken each other’s words, there can be no going back,” she says. “What better way to make friends than through books? Not simply by reading them, but by sharing them as well?”
Awards:
- My Friend, the Sea won the award for “Most Ambitious Project” at the
Berlin Children and Youth Literature Festival, Berlin
- My Mother’s Sari was selected as “Outstanding International Book” for
2007 in USA
Accolades:
Invited to the Gothenburg bookfair in connection with an Indo-Swedish project that has Indian and Swedish writers and illustrators of children’s books creating books together.
invited to the Frankfurt Bookfair 2006, the first time children’s writers have ever been invited to Frankfurt.
Her book “My Friend the Sea” was read over BBC 7 in December 2005.
Some of the books written / translated:
Ekki Dokki | And Land Was Born | Suresh and the Sea | Sunu-Sunu Snail : Storm in the Garden | Look, the Moon! | Sweet and Salty | Mazzoo Mazzoo | Busy Busy Grand-ant |
Picture Gandhi | My Gandhi Scrapbook | Grandma’s Eyes | Dosa | Crocodile Tears (with Jonathan Lindstrom, part of the Indo-Swedish project) | Pippi Lambemoze (Hindi translation of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstrump)
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