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Tulika Publishers Hardback English
Oluguti Toluguti
Indian Rhymes to Read and Recite
Edited by Radhika Menon
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Welcome to the world of Oluguti Tolugutia world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches, and hattima tim tims. Listen to birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. Meet Tuaan-Tueen and Rolenga and Suraiyya. Play in the rain falling chham chham chham, and dance thai thaka thaka with a crane standing on one leg. Meet Ammas and Abbus and Sister Moon. It is a chemma chekka world of dam padam pappadams, khabdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more! This collection includes 54 traditional and familiar childhood rhymes in 18 languages drawn from across India. It celebrates different childhoods as well as the richness and vitality of Indias multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English echo the cadences and rhythms of the originals (which also appear alongside, with transliterations in Roman/English and Devanagari/ Hindi scripts).
Welcome to the world of Oluguti Tolugutia world of elephants, buffaloes, crows, cockroaches, and hattima tim tims. Listen to birds call kau kau and kukre kuk. Meet Tuaan-Tueen and Rolenga and Suraiyya. Play in the rain falling chham chham chham, and dance thai thaka thaka with a crane standing on one leg. Meet Ammas and Abbus and Sister Moon. It is a chemma chekka world of dam padam pappadams, khabdak khabdak rocking horses and lots more! This collection includes 54 traditional and familiar childhood rhymes in 18 languages drawn from across India. It celebrates different childhoods as well as the richness and vitality of Indias multilingual character. Lively adaptations in English echo the cadences and rhythms of the originals (which also appear alongside, with transliterations in Roman/English and Devanagari/ Hindi scripts).