Manchi Pustakam’s collaboration with Telugu Association of North America (TANA) began in 2017, with a common intent to encourage children reading in Telugu. The approach we took was to have an open invite for original writings in Telugu, and have a panel select the most appealing entries.
We celebrated Children’s Day in 2021 with the release of the prize winning books. They included ten picture stories for children below 10 years, and five novels for children above 10 years.
Weekly column by Suresh Kosaraju (of Manchi Pustakam), featured on TelupuTV, that ran for 19 weeks.
Article publish date: 19th October, 2021
Picture credit: TelupuTV
Each week introduced a new book that had been translated into Telugu. Genres included novels, sustainable agriculture, adolescent health and wellbeing, education reform, and philosophy. The columns often included a brief description of the book, parts that resonated with the columnist, what made the book unique, inspiring behind-the-scenes tidbits and more.
Cover page, Parusavedi (a Telugu translation of Paulo Coelho’s best-selling The Alchemist)
Cover page, Singaravva
Email from 2009, from the author of The Missing Rose. Translating The Alchemist brought forward this new opportunity. It resulted in the Telugu novel, Oka Roja Kosam
Release of Koumara Vayassu Baalalato Muchhatlu in the presence of Kamla Bhasin garu was an honour.
Manchi Pustakam mentioned in the article about the children’s book ‘Waiting for Turtles‘.
Article publish date: 3rd September, 2021
It is the story of Samrat who accompanies his mother to a small island in the Andamans, hoping to see nesting turtles. The book aims to raise awareness about Green sea turtles, through the events unfolding on the eco-sensitive Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Picture credit: ONmanorama.com
The article mentions translation of this book into Telugu, by Manchi Pustakam. Read the full article here.
Inside look: Tabella Kosam Eduru Choostu…
Cover: Tabella Kosam Eduru Choostu…
Appealing not just to the environmentally conscious, ‘Waiting For Turtles’ is authored by Pankaj Sekhsaria. It features mesmerising illustrations by Vipin Sketchplore, and has been published by Karadi Tales.
On a sailing ship, when an in-house monkey flees after taking a boy’s hat, it leaves it on one of the spokes of the ship jutting out towards the sea. In an attempt to retrieve the hat, the boy falls down only to be rescued later by one of the sailors.
The above story is a supremely abridged version of a story penned by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, specifically for children. The book we hold in our hand is called L Tolstoy: Stories for Children and is perhaps the first Telugu edition of it. “Tolstoy, while translating Aesop’s Fables, famously trimmed out all those lines alluding to the moral of the story. What lesson they wanted to learn from the story, or not, was left to the children,” says the very knowledgeable Suresh, who has a personal collection of about 150 children’s books from the Soviet Era from publishers like Raduga Publishers and Progress Publishers.
2003లో మొట్టమొదటసారి హైదరాబాదు పుస్తక ప్రదర్శనలో ‘పుస్తకాలతో స్నేహం’ పేరుతో పాల్గొన్నప్పుడు అందుబాటులోకి తెచ్చిన పుస్తకాలను ఇలా జాబితాగా ప్రచురించాం. రెండవ పేజీలో ఇందుకు వివిధ రకాలుగా సహకరించిన వాళ్ల పేర్లు అన్నీ ఉన్నాయి. విషయ సూచిక, ముందు మాట మిగిలిన విషయాలను వివరిస్తాయి.
An excellent bookshop, where they know their books and have read them too. Patiently explaining the essence of the book. They are a treasure trove and a treasure trove if information. Loved every minute I was there. Brought back the warm fuzzy feeling of being in a book shop which is sadly missing these days in the corporate bookshops.
Chandrasekhar Kambhampati
12/09/2024
మంచి పుస్తకం ఒక అందమైన పుస్తకాల బొమ్మరిల్లు. చిన్నా పెద్దా అందరికీ నేస్తాలు దొరికే చోటు ఇది. ఎన్నో మంచి పుస్తకాలు లభ్యం అవుతాయి. చిన్న వయస్సు నుండే పుస్తక నేస్తాలను అందిస్తోంది.
chintalapati bharadwaj
11/08/2024
ఎంతో ఆహ్లాదకరంగా ఉంది వాతావరణం. పుస్తకాలతో ఇంకా నిండింది కాబట్టి అస్సలు అక్కడ నుండి బయటకు రావాలని అనిపించలేదు. అంత బాగుంటుంది ప్లేస్.
Eswar Khanna Enukonda
19/05/2024
Manchi Pustakam is our go-to place for well thought out, neatly put together, affordable children's books, especially in Telugu. The collection of books is vast, and is renewed regularly with new books with different themes. It is always a pleasure to visit Manchi Pustakam office or their stall at book exhibitions. Thank you to Bhagyalakshmi garu and Suresh garu for this selfless service for children and the language.
