These characters are designed after my daughter and son. Her excitement in hearing these stories is what gave birth to Tamil Storytime. This book is mainly focused on the positi. Once her brother was born, our stories evolved to stories in where she and her younger brother were the leads. Hi everyone:)Happy to inform you all that I have successfully published third Tamil paperback and e-book in amazon.
we would sit and make up stories together. Deliveries outside Colombo may take longer than 3 working days. Deliveries within Colombo will be handed over to delivery within 3 working days. Delivery charges can be calculated on each product page or your Shopping Cart before placing the order. I instead “read” English books in Tamil to her. Delivery charges are calculated based on product weight & distance. When my daughter was born, we searched for books in Tamil, with characters that looked like her, and was sad at the lack of inventory. Even when we read stories to our children, we translated them and “read” them aloud in Tamil. It is why we spoke to our children primarily in Tamil alone. It was always important to my husband and I that our children learn to speak Tamil and understand their roots. I found that some of my children’s favourite books, were books where the illustrations of children looked like them. When I became a mom, I did my best to include diverse books in my children’s library.
But the statistics for representation in children’s picture books are disheartening. I could see children holding on tighter to books in where the children looked like themselves – every child needs to be able to see themselves represented as strong superheroes. Characters that looked more like me and not Snow White.Īs I became a children’s librarian myself, the lack of diversity in children’s books became even more prominent. This is why I preferred chapter books even as a young age, because I could imagine the characters as they were in my head. I was always that little girl who spent hours at the library, it was my absolute favourite place. While I loved books, one problem I found was that my imagination of the characters in fairy tales and the graphic representation did not match.