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Clumsy!
She spills, drops, breaks and trips on things. She is called Clumsy, Slowcoach, Careless, Sloppy, Messy, ButterfingersÉ words that scare away all other words. But in her head, the words become stories and the stories become pictures. One day her grandmother gives her a box of paints Ð and with brush in hand she sweeps herself away from the names people call her! Vivid watercolours lift the little girl from her everyday milieu into a swirl of images and hues.
About the Author
Ken Spillman has authored around 60 books. His stories for children have been published around the world and in languages as divers as French, Farsi and Vietnamese. He lives in Australia and has presented hundreds of sessions on books, writing and imagination to school children. This is his second book with Tulika, and Advaita the Writer.
About the Illustrator
Manjari Chakravarti spent most of her childhood between the covers of picture books. When she grew up, she studies art, drew, painted, sculpted and did printmaking. She also loves to write her own stories. Her evocative picture can be seen in The Illustrated Premchand by David Rubin and more recently, in Ken SpillmanÕt The Circle and The Great Storyteller. Manjari lives and works in Shantiniketan.
About the Author
Ken Spillman has authored around 60 books. His stories for children have been published around the world and in languages as divers as French, Farsi and Vietnamese. He lives in Australia and has presented hundreds of sessions on books, writing and imagination to school children. This is his second book with Tulika, and Advaita the Writer.
About the Illustrator
Manjari Chakravarti spent most of her childhood between the covers of picture books. When she grew up, she studies art, drew, painted, sculpted and did printmaking. She also loves to write her own stories. Her evocative picture can be seen in The Illustrated Premchand by David Rubin and more recently, in Ken SpillmanÕt The Circle and The Great Storyteller. Manjari lives and works in Shantiniketan.
28 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
About the author
Ken Spillman
96 books10 followersKen Spillman grew up in Perth and has been a full-time professional writer for most of his adult life. He is the author of 20 books including Blue and Love is a UFO, both acclaimed novels for teenagers. He co-authored Magpie Mischief and Magwheel Mayhem, and is also the author of the forthcoming title Jake’s Gigantic List (for early readers). During 2008, Ken was a keynote speaker at the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference and a guest of the Tasmanian Writers Centre, the Mussoorie International Writers’ Festival, and the Delhi Children’s Literature Festival. He was a keynote speaker at a conference on multiliteracies in Singapore earlier this year. Ken has compiled five collections of writing, and the major US reference work Contemporary Authors has compiled a detailed entry on his career.
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December 31, 2017
The girl in this book is called so many names by everyone. However, she has such a rich interior life. The difference between what we can see and what actually is is sometimes so vast!
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