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About Gudiya Stories
Gudiya means doll. It is what a lot of families in India call their little girl, and it is the doll on our logo holding an open book.
Gudiya Stories is the publishing side of S.V. Bharathi's classroom work. She has taught in early-years classrooms for more than fifteen years, with a background in the IB curriculum, and she writes the stories she could not find on the shelf: ones that start a conversation about kindness, courage or family, and leave room for the child to answer.
Donimalai is a small mining township in a green valley in Karnataka, ringed by hills and forest. Bharathi grew up there.
Her book Mystical Landscapes of Donimalai sends Rani and her friends up the same paths, and asks what it means to leave a forest cleaner than you found it.
How a book is made
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Each story starts from the questions children actually ask in class.
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Bharathi reads every draft aloud to children before it is final.
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She designs every spread herself, so the words and pictures are planned together.
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Printed in India on 300gsm art paper with a matte finish.
Start in the valley.