Pickle Yolk Books on LinkedIn: We are super thrilled to win the 2024 FICCI Publishing Awards for AKELA… (2024)

We had a most wholesome conversation around #motherhood earlier this week at the India International Centre, Delhi. The lived realities, perspectives and insights shared with utmost honesty by our fabulous speakers Pooja Pande, Kavita Bundelkhandi and Vandana Sharma packed a powerful punch, and left us with much food for thought. And also left us wishing we had had way more time than just the hour that we did for it. While no one single forum can ever be enough to unpack every aspect that a subject like this encompasses, we are happy that we got us talking. The active participation by the attendees was a delight. Thank you to everyone for having made the effort on a Monday evening to come for this. The evening’s discussions flowed from our recent title MOMMIES, written by Richa Jha, illustrated by Priya Sebastian and edited by Archana Atri. It gives us great joy and satisfaction to see a picture book for readers as young as three being an important and effective conversation-starter, in homes, at schools, and at public forums such as this one was. Our huge thank you to the India International Centre for co-hosting the event. And a big one to the Khabar Lehariya team too for having helped us spread the word wide. A sharp salute to the fearless women in the team. Thank you, Delhi NCR! We’re sharing some pics from the evening. #motherhood #poojapande #kavitabundelkhandi #vandanasharma #mommies #pickleyolkbooks

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A big YAY! for AKELA on being shortlisted by the Jury for the 2024 ‘Valley of Words Book Awards’ in the Childrens’ Literature category! Congratulations Richa Jha and Ruchi Shah, and all the books and their creators on the shortlist! #valleyofwords #pickleyolkbooks #richajha #richajhabooks #ruchishah #pickleyolkdelights #shortlist

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Just two more days to go! It’s drumrolls today for our fabulous speakers at this Pickle Yolk Books event on Monday, July 22 at 6:30pm at the India International Centre - *Good Mom, Bad Mom and Motherhood’s Shifting Paradigms* It’s a conversation flowing from our recent picture book *Mommies*, written by Richa Jha, illustrated by Priya Sebastian and edited by Archana Atri. Join us as we explore how moms are breaking away from time-worn motherhood moulds. OUR SPEAKERS: Kavita Bundelkhandi is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Khabar Lahariya and the first Dalit member of the Editor’s Guild of India, is a non-conformist of many parts who stumbled into motherhood. Pooja Pande is a writer, editor, TED speaker and co-CEO of Chambal Media, and has deconstructed the institution of motherhood in India in her book ‘Momspeak’. Vandana Sharma is a practicing advocate who qualified as a mother and advocate at about the same time in the dawn of the new century.WHEN: July 22, 2024 | Tea at 6pm, followed by the session at 6:30pmWHERE: Conference Room 1, India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New DelhiThis is an open event moderated by our publisher Richa Jha. We look forward to many of you joining us on Monday. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gRUEramg

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We are HUGELY excited to share this special something we have planned with the India International Centre for all our Delhi Pickle Yolk friends! Good Mom, Bad Mom and Motherhood’s Shifting Paradigms - a Conversation What: A conversation flowing from our recent picture book Mommies, written by Richa Jha, illustrated by Priya Sebastian and edited by Archana Atri.By living on their own terms and not making mothering the raison d’etre of their existence, women today are challenging conventional views that reduce mothers to a self-sacrificing, rule-bound gendered identity and role.Join us as we explore how moms are breaking away from time-worn motherhood moulds. For a fluid conversation, we will seemlessly switch between English and Hindi. When: July 22, 2024 | Tea at 6pm, followed by the session at 6:30pmWhere: Conference Room 1, India International CentreMore on this, in the days to come. Do mark your calendars for now. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gpMbUPtpLooking forward to seeing many of you join us.

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AKELA is shortlisted for the 2024 Mehlii Gobhai Best Children’s Illustrator Award! Our hugest congratulations to brilliant Ruchi Shah for this! 🥂 And our best wishes to all the other fabulous books and illustrators on the shortlist. Instituted by MCubed Library, these awards celebrate the very best of the visual narratives in books for children in India. #Ruchishah #pickleyolkbooks #pickleyolkdelights #akela

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Tis the season of the @bankstreetlibrary’s annual announcement of the #BestChildrensBooks in the US, and we just realised (three years late, oops) that ANI’S LIGHT by @Tanushree and @SandhyaPrabhat was on the 2021 list! Never too late to celebrate a good news, of course. And never too late to wonder how we missed it back then! Give us a moment to explain the three titles. So we created this most beautiful book and called it It’sDark. @penguin published it as Darkless (how we LOVE the this title) in India. And @MaginationPress took it to the US as Ani’s Light and gave it a different cover. This much-loved picturebook has touched the hearts of young readers, their parents, teachers, librarians and educationists everywhere, and garnered loads of critical appreciation and recognition along the way. Goes without saying that we are mighty proud to have created this beauty. Our hugest congratulations to #tanushreesingh and #sandhyaprabhat! 🥂#bankstreetlibrary #anislight #pickleyolkbooks #pickleyolkdelights #penguinrandomhouseindia #puffinbooks #maginationpress #americanpsychologicalassociation

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It brings us great joy to see our Dance of the Wild on the shelves of the Museum Rietberg Shop in Zurich, Switzerland. This gorgeous title of ours has been a part of their handpicked and meticulously-curated set of (mostly) non-European art and handicraft objects, and books since 2022. It’s just been restocked there, our happy dance thus! DANCE OF THE WILD by Richa Jha and Ruchi Mhasane. #pickleyolkbooks #pickleyolkdelights #ruchimhasane #richajha #danceofthewild #indiankidlit #picturebooksfromindia

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Three of our fabulous titles have been beautifully produced and published in Malayalam by Poorna Publications, Calicut/Kozhikode. Our huge shoutout to Dr Radhika C Nair for her sharp, flawless translations. Aai and I by Mamta Nainy and Sanket Pethkar is AMMAYUM NJANUMThe Tree Boy by Srividhya Venkat and Nayantara Surendranath is MARAKUTTYThe Middle by Richa Jha and Eva Sanchez Gomez is PAATHI. #pickleyolkbooks #pickleyolkdelights

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