For 9-12 years | Literary Keepsakes
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 103) Literary Keepsakes: In a fire emergency, what is the one object that you would choose to take with you? Award-winning author Linda Sue Park builds on the same idea in her book, The One Thing You’d Save, a collection in verse inspired by the Korean poetry form sijo. […]
For 9-12 years | Vaccine for Smartypants
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 101) Vaccine for Smartypants: Smartypants the cat is in a suit of armour and then dressed as a detective on a mission to understand how vaccines fight germs in the body. Work with the award-winning author Anushka Ravishankar to frame a few pages of your version of Smartypants’ next […]
For 9-12 years | Returning to a Favourite Fictional World
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 112) Returning to a Favourite Fictional World – Sail along the river of story with the award-winning writer Anita Nair as she revisits the fictional land of Kaikurrusi in her new book for children, Bipathu and A Very Big Dream. What would your version of your own Kaikurrusi be […]
For 9-12 years | Blending the Light and the Dark
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 111) Blending the Light and the Dark – Learn from the author Soumya Ayer on how to balance sombre topics with a touch of light humour in one’s writing, as she does with The Ghost of Malabar. (45m)
For 13-18 years | Visualising History
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 106) Visualising History: Connecting the dots between historical facts over time, and depicting these in a visual format holds advantages over using plain text. Find out more with graphic novelist Nikhil Gulati, and how he does this in his book, The People of the Indus (45m)
For 13-18 years | Growing Historical Awareness
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 105) Growing Historical Awareness – The events of the past help put into perspective the resultant effects on the next generation. Hannah Lahlanpuii examines the impact of the 1960s insurgency in Aizawl on the lives of her characters, demonstrating how writers weave first-hand accounts into their writing, as with […]
For 13-18 years | Beyond the Single Story
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 104) Beyond the Single Story: History teaches us to view famous individuals, such as the Rani of Jhansi, in a particular light. How do we learn to look beyond the single story? Discover more with Devika Rangachari, author of Queen of Fire. (45m)
For 9-12 years | Breaking Biases
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 103) Breaking Biases: Interact with the author Divya Anand to discover how she dismantles stereotypes through her books such as Misfit Madhu. Try your hand at creating a character similar to Madhu, but of your very own. (45m)
For 9-12 years | Behind the Scenes of Brilliance
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 101) Behind the Scenes of Brilliance: Did you know that the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was very fond of puns, and laughed at his own jokes? Find out more about the craft of writing a biography for children, with writer Arundhati Venkatesh, author of the book Ramanujan: From Zero to […]
For 9-12 years | Illustrating Nature
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 112) Illustrating Nature: Learn the art of capturing whimsical and yet true-to-life nature illustrations with Sucharita Sengupta Suri, the illustrator of Ruskin Bond’s The Enchanted Cottage (45m)