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Nina Sabnani received the Big Little Book Award, illustrator category, in 2018. She is an artist and a story weaver who illustrates stories with paper, fabric, needle and thread. She uses ethnography as a medium to put the story and the illustration together which makes her work unique. Nina travels across the country meeting people and documenting their lives and culture, then bringing it forth for children through picture books. Her world of illustration is made up of various elements which shows inclusion and newness along with exploration.

Book art and photos from the field

Bibliography

Poetry and art

Threading cultures, people and stories

Stories are an inclusive place where different worlds meet. To present this diversity, Nina explores the form of illustration in a different way. Her work is a combination of culture, people and stories, presented not only through the story, but through the form of telling. It is a convergence of time and space, culminating as one.

Library Educator’s Course

LEC Hindi is open to all educators and intended for teachers, school librarians, development sector professionals, and literacy and language educators and in fact for every one working with children and books with the desire to spread the joy and culture of reading. The LEC offers a unique opportunity to strengthen understanding and academic thinking linked to practice in a well-designed, highly charged environment with some of the best library practitioners in the field.

The course comprises three contact sessions in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. LEC hindi has successfully completed seven batches. More than two hundred library educators and teachers from 43 organisations across 19 states have participated in the course.

Participation on moodle during distance mode, completion of assignments and field projects are graded. For more information, please go through the course prospectus.

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