About The Event
Join us for the launch of Go Go Flamingo, Tulika Books’ latest title, with the talented illustrator Priya Kuriyan! In this book, a flock of flamingos flies south in search of food and drink. What they find in the water causes a hullabaloo… They get draped and decked in unspooled tape, rubber tyres, shoes, plastic bags, syringe-needles, even rear-view mirrors! Unaware of their doom, they break into a dance in a confused trance.
Priya Kuriyan brings the irony alive through stunning visuals. Real objects imaginatively placed together with her drawings create a lifelike three-dimensional effect. Along with Devashish Makhija’s brilliant verse soaked in satire, they paint a telling picture – of the violence unthinking humans inflict on the natural world through hazardous waste.
About the Illustrator
Priya Kuriyan is a children`s book writer-illustrator, comics maker and chronic doodler. She has directed educational films for the Sesame Street show (India) and the Children`s Film Society of India (CFSI) and has illustrated numerous children`s books for publishers like Tulika Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Hachette to name a few. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Big Little Book award, instituted by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts in recognition of her contribution to Indian children`s literature. Her most recent children`s picture book `Beauty in Missing` was published by Pratham Books, India. She lives and works in the city of Bangalore.
