Ek Patang Naam Korika
- Publisher : Tulika Publishers
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9789350461990
- Imprint : Tulika
- Translator : Sushma
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : Hindi
This story is set in a village in Andhra Pradesh. The monsoon has failed in Yellaiah’s village and everything is d ...
This story is set in a village in Andhra Pradesh. The monsoon has failed in Yellaiah’s village and everything is dry and dusty. One day, he is sitting under a gnarled old peepal tree with an old woman called Rajamma who sells overripe fruits when he looks up at the sky and sees something black like a dot there. He keeps looking and finds it is a kite that’s descending downward and it falls right beside him. Excitedly he picks it up. Rajamma looks at the patterns on the kite and tells him it is a wish-fulfilling kite. So Yellaiah calls it Korika, which, in Telugu, means that which is wish fulfilling. Soon, all his friends are making wishes for bangles, a school bag, a full meal... This moving story about dreams and fears is matched by tender pictures that explore the innocence and vulnerability of children.
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Kerala based K. P. Muraleedharan is a multifaceted illustrator who has worked for several years in the well-known Malayalam weekly Mathrubhoomi, and as a designer in Toonz Animation. After A Kite Called Korika, Appaka is his second book with Tulika. He won Kerala’s Balasahitya Puraskaram in 2011.
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