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Big Little Book Award 2024 will be awarded to an illustrator for significant contribution to children’s literature in India through a body of work.
BLBA 2024
BLBA 2024 Timeline
1. Nomination
The award opens by inviting nominations from an empanelled group of people who are directly associated with children’s literature in various ways.
2. Selection
Post nomination closure, a longlist is drawn from the nominated list in consultation with the jury. A bibliography is put together for each illustrator on the longlist, followed by procuring a set of their books for the jury. In 2 to 3 months, the jury independently shortlists illustrators. Thereafter, over an in-person meeting, the winner illustrator is decided through a consensus.
3. Winner
The BLBA winner is announced at the award ceremony hosted by Parag.
Anushka Ravishankar has written over forty books for children, including picture books inverse, chapter books, retellings of folk tales and non-fiction. Several of them have been published internationally and have won awards. As a picture book writer, she has collaborated with illustrators from all over the world. She worked as an editor at Tara Books and Scholastic India before co-founding a children’s publishing house called Duckbill Books (which is now a Penguin Random House India imprint). Some of her books are Moin and the Monster, Hic!, Captain Coconut and the Case of the Missing Bananas and Ogd.
Anushka Ravishankar has written over forty books for children, including picture books inverse, chapter books, retellings of folk tales and non-fiction. Several of them have been published internationally and have won awards. As a picture book writer, she has collaborated with illustrators from all over the world. She worked as an editor at Tara Books and Scholastic India before co-founding a children’s publishing house called Duckbill Books (which is now a Penguin Random House India imprint). Some of her books are Moin and the Monster, Hic!, Captain Coconut and the Case of the Missing Bananas and Ogd.
Jane Sahi has taught in an alternative school near Bengaluru for a number of years. She has until recently been engaged in teaching at the Library Educators’ Course at Bookworm in Goa. She is presently involved in The Fig Tree Learners’ Centre that works with local government schools particularly in relation to library activities and sessions with children looking at nature through observation, stories and art work. Jane has written a number of books including “In Our Own Words” which is about how to support children’s independent and creative writing. She has taught courses related to language pedagogy and children’s literature at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru.
Jane Sahi has taught in an alternative school near Bengaluru for a number of years. She has until recently been engaged in teaching at the Library Educators’ Course at Bookworm in Goa. She is presently involved in The Fig Tree Learners’ Centre that works with local government schools particularly in relation to library activities and sessions with children looking at nature through observation, stories and art work. Jane has written a number of books including “In Our Own Words” which is about how to support children’s independent and creative writing. She has taught courses related to language pedagogy and children’s literature at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru.
Junuka’s primary interest is in the practice of observation. The practice inspires her to engage in the process of image making through drawing, films and singing. She explores image making and image construction as sensemaking processes in her practice as an artist and an educator. Her professional journey as a film maker and community worker across forests, islands, cities and villages has led her to question implicit notions of self and hierarchy embedded in creative-perceptive processes. She is engaged in exploring methods and forms of recording, documenting, interpreting and understanding the environment in an artistic, collaborative and just manner. Junuka teaches at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and technology, Bangalore and works on projects that engage with communities, places and stories.
Junuka’s primary interest is in the practice of observation. The practice inspires her to engage in the process of image making through drawing, films and singing. She explores image making and image construction as sensemaking processes in her practice as an artist and an educator. Her professional journey as a film maker and community worker across forests, islands, cities and villages has led her to question implicit notions of self and hierarchy embedded in creative-perceptive processes. She is engaged in exploring methods and forms of recording, documenting, interpreting and understanding the environment in an artistic, collaborative and just manner. Junuka teaches at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and technology, Bangalore and works on projects that engage with communities, places and stories.
Priya Kuriyan is a children’s book writer-illustrator, comics maker and chronic doodler. She has directed educational films for the Sesame Street show (India) and the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) and has illustrated numerous children’s books for publishers like Tulika Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Hachette to name a few. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award, instituted by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts in recognition of her contribution to Indian children’s literature. Her most recent children’s picture book ‘Beauty in Missing’ was published by Pratham Books, India. She lives and works in the city of Bangalore and in her spare time makes funny caricatures of its residents.
Priya Kuriyan is a children’s book writer-illustrator, comics maker and chronic doodler. She has directed educational films for the Sesame Street show (India) and the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) and has illustrated numerous children’s books for publishers like Tulika Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Hachette to name a few. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award, instituted by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts in recognition of her contribution to Indian children’s literature. Her most recent children’s picture book ‘Beauty in Missing’ was published by Pratham Books, India. She lives and works in the city of Bangalore and in her spare time makes funny caricatures of its residents.
Vishwajyoti engages in visual arts, graphic novels, illustrations and the medium of visual storytelling to communicate on social and development issues. He has illustrated children’s books for Tulika, Puffin and Rupa books in the past. He is the co-founder of the Pao Collective, a comic-artists collective. Ghosh has worked together on many occasions with other comic artists across the globe.
His critically acclaimed graphic novel ‘Delhi Calm’ was published in 2010. In 2013, he curated ‘This Side That Side: Restorying Partition’, a graphic anthology discussing the Partition. His most recent work, WE Mean Business, a graphic telling of stories featuring grassroot Women Entrepreneurs won the Best Graphic Novel at the FICCI Publishing Awards in 2023. Besides being a visual storyteller, Ghosh also has engaged as a cartoonist, writing editorials and a storytelling podcaster.
Vishwajyoti engages in visual arts, graphic novels, illustrations and the medium of visual storytelling to communicate on social and development issues. He has illustrated children’s books for Tulika, Puffin and Rupa books in the past. He is the co-founder of the Pao Collective, a comic-artists collective. Ghosh has worked together on many occasions with other comic artists across the globe.
His critically acclaimed graphic novel ‘Delhi Calm’ was published in 2010. In 2013, he curated ‘This Side That Side: Restorying Partition’, a graphic anthology discussing the Partition. His most recent work, WE Mean Business, a graphic telling of stories featuring grassroot Women Entrepreneurs won the Best Graphic Novel at the FICCI Publishing Awards in 2023. Besides being a visual storyteller, Ghosh also has engaged as a cartoonist, writing editorials and a storytelling podcaster.
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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