Usha Uthup to launch Storytellers in Kolkata

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 is going to be a very special day for the young readers. Usha Uthup is launching Storytellers in Kolkata. The venue is Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street, Kolkata, and the time, 4.00 pm.

Storytellers is a gift to young readers from Orient Longman—a name associated with creating a new world of reading for children across the country— in collaboration with BookBox, a global storyteller for children.

Storytellers is a collection of more than 50 stories that introduce the young reader to life in a refreshingly creative manner. Colourful, creative and entertaining, Storytellers teaches your child essential values in life, such as friendship, compassion, honour, love and integrity. India is a land of multiple cultures and languages, and Storytellers recognizes this beautifully. Therefore, apart from English, the books are also being published in several Indian languages.

The first ten stories are The Whispering Palms, Rosa Goes to the City, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Santa’s Christmas, The Boo in the Shoe, Tucket the Bucket, The Four Friends, The First Well, The Turtle’s Flute, and Symbiosis.

Storytellers is more than just a set of story books. An interactive and animated CD accompanies the books. We believe the books will inculcate a love and passion for both reading and learning in young children, and also nurture in them a fertile imagination. Reading, learning and enjoying, the child will experience the relevance of Same Language Subtitling (SLS), a new and award-winning concept conceived at Stanford University by experts. This concept helps a child relate phonetic sounds with visual sub-titles to accelerate the development of reading skills. The artistically animated stories or “smartoons” powered by SLS will make your children gain a stronger command over languages and read more fluently.

Gift the love for reading.
Your children will love you for it!