Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra

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A stunningly illustrated gift book of ancient Indian fables, retold by bestselling poet NikitaGill.

The stories of the Panchatantra have been read aloud and shared for thousands of years,kept alive by generation after generation of storytellers. In this captivating collection of tenanimal tales, reimagined with warmth and wit, you'll meet mighty elephants andcourageous mice, cunning crocodiles and clever monkeys, talkative tortoises and little lapwingbirds. Discover a world of wonder, wisdom and friendship, of helping others, speaking out andfinding courage.

With vibrant, irresistible colour artwork on every page by Chaaya Prabhat, and sumptuous highendfinishes, including a jacket, foiled cloth bindingAnd a ribbon marker, this is a timeless gift book forevery child to enjoy and treasure.

Author Bio

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a worldwide fan-base, who has the attention of600,000 Instagram followers for poetrycollections and plays that offer a largely femalereadership the chance to recognise the valueof their own experiences. She has given aTedX Talk, spoken at every major literaryfestival in the U.K., been shortlisted for theGoodreads Choice Award in poetry threetimes and has recently made her first forayinto music having written for AnoushkaShankar's newest single Sister Susannah. Shehas written for or been featured in The NewYork Times, The Times, The Financial Times,The Guardian, Stylist Magazine, TheBookseller, Cosmopolitan, The Times of India,Eastern Eye and many more. Gill has writtensix collections of poetry, and a novel in versewhich highlights Hindu mythology.

Chaaya Prabhat is an illustrator and letteringartist from Chennai, India, currently workingout of Goa. She has worked on a number ofpicture books, including The Culture ofClothes (Templar Publishing), The Best DiwaliEver (Scholastic), Bracelets for Bina's Brothers(Charlesbridge Publishing) and Hide-and-SeekHistory: The Egyptians (Little Tiger Publishing).She's previously worked with several clientssuch as Penguin, Hachette, Facebook andGoogle on digital illustration projects. She haspreviously received awards for her portfolioand projects from Behance and Adobe.