CROCUS 2010: You’re invited!

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

You’re invited to take part in CROCUS 2010, Saffron Tree‘s exciting annual book festival in celebration of their anniversary. They’re turning 4 this year and have planned a week-long romp in honor of culturally diverse and unique stories. Make sure to drop by at some point between Oct 23-30 to wish them a happy anniversary and to enjoy all the special book reviews, interviews, contests and giveaways planned for the occasion. As a matter of fact, you should plan on stopping by and joining in on the fun all seven days of it!

PaperTigers’ current issue, focusing on children’s literature from India and the Indian diaspora, features personal view pieces by Saffron Tree contributors’ UTBT (Anitha Rumkumar) and Choxbox (Namrata), about Anushka Ravishankar’s books and a young readers’ series on Indian history, respectively. Check them out, on PaperTigers and at their blog! We are big fans of Saffron Tree, and all their talented and passionate contributors, and highly recommend it as a source of excellent multicultural reading material.

Poster artwork by Lavanya Karthik

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CROCUS Book Festival: Celebrating the Reading of Culturally Unique Stories

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

ST+Flier+sample_grey+borderAs part of the third anniversary celebration of the blog Saffron Tree, a week-long festival to encourage the reading of culturally unique stories has been planned and is now underway. This is day 3 of the festival (I wish we had  known about it sooner!), whose theme is “Around the World in 7 days,” and so far they have been to North and South America and to Africa. In their own words, here’s what they have in store this week for book lovers of all ages: “an avalanche of reviews of wonderful books focusing on folktales, immigrant tales, modern tales; a crossword contest; and some interesting author interviews. This is all in the spirit of the blog to promote reading to children, and more so, the reading of culturally diverse books.”

Head on straight over to Saffron Tree to enjoy their wonderful offerings and to make offerings of your own! Wouldn’t you say it’s always better to share the fruits of one’s literary discoveries with other book lovers than to keep them all to one’s self?

And just a reminder: here at PaperTigers we are still going around the world in 100 bookshelves… and we want to receive your bookshelf pictures and stories, so please keep them coming!

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