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Shobha Viswanath

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Born

Chennai, India

Website

https://www.karaditales.com/

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May 2014

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Shobha Viswanath is the Co-founder and Publishing Director of Karadi Tales Company

She has been responsible for steering the direction of her company from brilliantly produced audio books for children to creating new imprints for her publishing house such as Dreaming Fingers, an imprint that produces illustrated books for the visually disabled; Charkha the imprint of inspiring biographies for young adults; and Chitra, a line of beautifully illustrated picture books for young children.

In her position as publishing director of Karadi Tales, she has commissioned several award-winning titles, liaised with authors and illustrator, represented the organisation in foreign rights sales and decided the company’s creative direction. Over the years, ...more

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Ruchi Singh interned with us at Karadi Tales for four months between December 2018 and March 2019 as a part of her Bachelor’s in Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Vadodara. During her design internship with us, she was given the project of illustrating a board book, Something’s Falling. The book was on falling objects such as fruits, leaves, and so on, and Ruchi had the chall Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.75 · 424 ratings · 87 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Tangle of Brungles by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Culpeo S. Fox (Illustrator) 3.31 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Jackal by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Dileep Joshi (Illustrator) 3.68 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey King by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Uma Krishnaswamy (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Elephant in My Backyard by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Sadhvi Jawa (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Rainy Day by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Ashwathy P.S. (Illustrator), Anusha Sundar (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Earth Lost its Shapes by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lizard's Tail by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author) (Adapter) 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Hanuman & Hanuman the Mighty 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Vinayak by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Shilpa Ranade (Illustrations) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey and the Crocodile [Jan 01, 1996] Shobha Viswanath and Mandar Kanvinde by Shobha Viswanath (Goodreads Author), Mandar Kanvinde (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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