This is a multi-level toy making book that addresses three age groups. For the small child, it gives step by step instructions on how to make traditional folk toys with everyday materials. For the older child, it explains simple and complex scientific principles through toymaking. For the adult, it places the tradition of toy making in a contemporary context and addresses issues of pedagogy, play, consumerism and the toy industry.
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One of our most prolific children's book writers, Anushka Ravishankar has slowly but surely been securing her status as one of the best children's writers of her generation. Her expansive talent shines most brilliantly in her works of nonsense verse - jubilant and artful adaptations of this difficult genre to the cadences of Indian English. Said to be the pi
More about Gita WolfCarrying on in the nonsense-verse tradition of Dr. Seuss, Edward Lear and Lewis Caroll, the witty and jubilant poetry-tales of Indian writer Anushka Ravishankar are internationally acclaimed, widely translated, and honoured with innumerable awards. Anushka has authored over 18 books. Piet Grobler is an extremely accomplished South African Illustrator who has
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