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Electric Birds of Pothakudi

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By (author): Karthika Naïr

Illustrated by: Joëlle Jolivet

Karuppu Raja dearly loves his small village of Pothakudi. He takes great pride in being responsible for its only source of light, switching the circuit breaker on every night to power the streetlamps. But one evening, he discovers a birds nest buried deep inside the box. Hes faced with a terrible dilemma: to turn the switch on and destroy the nest or to leave the village in darkness until the fledgelings are born.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 06 Feb 2025

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 240 x 295mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Tate Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 5-7
  • ISBN13: 9781849769150

About Karthika Naïr

Karthika Naïr is a poet playwright fabulist and dance scenarist. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata her reworking of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices won the 2015 Tata Literature Live Award for Book of the Year (India). Les Oiseaux électriques de Pothakudi her latest childrens book illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet won the 2023 Prix Felipé for ecological childrens literature and was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix Franco-Allemand de la littérature de jeunesse. The dance performances she has scripted and co-scripted include Akram Khans multiple-award-winning DESH and Carlos Pons Guerras Mariposa a queer reimagining of Puccinis opera Madame Butterfly. Joëlle Jolivet is an outstanding Illustrator who works mostly in linocut. She knows how to style without losing sight of the original object and is passionate about detail. Her books have been published internationally. She lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine France.

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