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Tara Books Toys and Play: with Everyday Materials
What is a good toy? To find out, learn to make your own! Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and come up with an unbelievable range of playthings using simple everyday materials. All of them are based on a vanishing tradition of so-called folk toys, which used to be created by small time toymakers from all over India. With clues, poems and jokes thrown in, children will find the instructions easy to follow on their own. Adults working with children will notice how they begin to explore, value and handle physical material intelligently – an important sense to restore in an increasingly virtual world. In addition to toy making, the book also looks at the science behind some of them. A thought provoking last section is meant for adults who would like to think through the complex issues of toys and play in today’s world: how can we enable free and open-ended play which is not tied to expensive products, virtual reality, ready-made stories, or regressive notions of gender?
£17.99
Tara Books 8 Ways to draw an Elephant - PB
This unusual art activity book featuring the Indian elephant introduces children to a variety of Indian art traditions. The elephant is imagined and rendered in eight different folk and tribal styles. Through tracing, patterning and coloring the elephants, the child can immerse herself in detailed exploration of styles - or just have fun. Older children will begin to understand that art is as much about the imagination as it is about depiction.
£6.66
Tara Books Travels Through South Indian Kitchens
ln this richly perceptive travelogue, Japanese designer Nao Saito explores the kitchens of South India, bringing together architecture, cookery, and conversation.
£17.99
Tara Books 8 Ways to Draw Deer
This unusual art activity book featuring the deer introduces children to a variety of Indian art traditions. Through tracing, patterning and colouring the deer, children learn to explore each of the eight distinctive styles in the book – or just have fun. Children also get to experience and understand how art is as much about the imagination as it is about depiction. The book comes with clear and valuable information on Indian art traditions.
£6.66
Tara Books The Circle of Fate
Above the peaks of the Himalaya, Garuda, the divine eagle of the God Vishnu, sees the Lord of Death hastening towards an exquisitely beautiful little bird. He decides to save it, and hides the bird away - but can death be cheated? A haunting parable of love and destiny, printed and bound by hand, and illustrated in the delicate and ornamental Patachitra tradition of Orissa in eastern India.
£27.00
Tara Books water
"Did we take more than our due?" Weaving his tale around a Gond fable about water, artist Subash Vyam muses on the history of our relationship to this most primeval of elements.
£12.99
Tara Books WaterLife - Handmade
Waterlife features Mithila art, a vibrant and delicate form of folk painting from Bihar in eastern India. The artist Rambharos Jha grew up on the banks of the legendary river Ganga, and developed a fascination for water and water life. In this book he creates an unusual artist's journal, adapting the motifs of the Mithila style to express his own vision. He frames his art with a playful text that evokes both childhood memory and folk legend. 'The long awaited successor to the bestselling Night Life of Trees, Waterlife is silk-screen printed by hand on handmade paper.
£31.50
Tara Books Fingerprint - Handmade
Fingerprint is a visual fable that celebrates resistance to state surveillance and control. Actual fingerprints, letter-pressed onto the pages of a book, create progressively complex patterns and sequences, transporting the fingerprint from the world of forensics and law into the freeing world of art and imagination. Playful yet provoking, this is both an art piece and a political communique. High-level political issues, such as international borders, immigration and state control, are addressed, simplified and made accessible. A poignant afterword adds to the visual tale; inciting deeper thought.
£13.49
Tara Books Fluke Book big Unlined
Introducing the latest addition to our flukebook family: the large, unlined sketchbook. A notebook that is as unique on the outside as whatever you choose to scribble inside. Covered with a fusion of eclectic prints and colours, stitched and bound by hand, each flukebook is completely original. Flukebook covers are created from the off-prints of our Book Craft workshop, where each one of our hand silkscreen printed books are born. So aside from being objects of great beauty, they're recycled too. Each cover is stamped 'Edition 1 of 1' and it's true - you'll never find a flukebook exactly like another - they're impossible to reproduce!
£10.98
Tara Books The Deep
There is another world below us. We fish on the surface, unaware of how deep the ocean is, and how filled it is with life. This hand-bound book has been silkscreen-printed by hand on recycled cotton paper. The marbling pattern on each cover is unique, and made by capturing colour on the surface of water at a moment in time.
£31.50
Tara Books Fluke Book small Ruled
The only notebook that is as unique on the outside as whatever you choose to scribble inside, each flukebook is covered with a fusion of eclectic prints and colours, totally original and knock-out gorgeous. Every cover is stamped "Edition 1 of 1" and it's true - you'll never find one flukebook exactly like another. They're impossible to reproduce! Flukebooks are stitched and bound by hand to the highest of standards by Tara Books, whose workshop has produced over 120,000 handmade books. Each flukebook is covered with a distinctive screen-printed test page created during the bookmaking process. These test pages are themselves works of art, and we were unable to face the idea of throwing away such vibrant experiments! We decided instead - in the spirit of recycling - to reuse the test pages to cover our notebooks.
£8.99
Tara Books One, Two, Tree
The first paperback edition of one of the most popular children's titles from Tara Books. This visually stunning read-aloud book invites young children to count the improbable number of animals that clamber up an ever-expanding tree. Illustrated with art from the Gond tribal tradition of central India, 'One, Two, Tree!' is a number book, a picture book, a nursery rhyme and a fable about living together. From the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India, the Gonds are a community of highly visual people. They surround themselves with their stunning art, which is traditionally painted on the mud floors and walls of their homes. Hailing from a densely forested region, the tree is at the heart of their art, providing a rich source of inspiration. 'One, Two, Tree!' is a unique and accessible way of introducing even very young children to this exceptional art form.
£7.78
Tara Books Pictures from Italy
Pictures from Italy is one of Charles Dickens' earlier works, a fantastic and whimsical foray into the twin worlds of travel and the imagination. Written in the 1840s when he took a respite from the writing of novels and traveled with his family to the continent, it is a travelogue offering a rare glimpse into the life of the great author. In this illustrated edition, Italian artist Livia Signorini takes inspiration from Dickens' words and plays with his sense of place, memory, and politics. The result is a brilliant contemporary dialogue with his work - a reading of history, time and change - which renews our sense of his enduring vision. Pictures from Italy is a tribute to the world of the great master in the 200th year of his birth.
£12.99
Tara Books PeekABooks 4Pack
A cat on a tree, an apple for mewhat else can you see, on this tree?
£5.57
Tara Books Tail Tale
Cat is fed up with her tail, and it never does what it should. She now wants a brand new tail, one that she can choose...
£14.39
Tara Books 8 Ways to draw a Fish - PB
The fish is imagined and rendered in eight different folk and tribal styles. Through tracing, patterning and colouring the fish, the child can immerse herself in detailed exploration of styles - or just have fun. Older children will begin to understand that art is as much about the imagination as it is about depiction.
£6.66
Tara Books Mahabharatha, The
The Mahabharatha, a great Indian epic, is a compelling chronicle of ambition and destruction. Samhita Arni's re-telling - written when she was just twelve years old - is bold and unorthodox in its depiction of characters, and in the sharply critical tone it adopts towards the epic's main theme: war. Illustrated with charming and intricate line drawings, this book offers a fresh and accessible perspective on this timeless myth. Originally published in the UK as two separate volumes, the book is now available as single combined edition.
£13.49