Authors/Illustrators - Asian Festival of Children's Contents - May 2010

NB: This list doesn't include local authors/illustrators such as Shamini Flint, Emily Lim, and Adeline Foo -- as we have already provided information about them via our Local Authors & Illustrators page - though note that page needs updating - many authors/illustrators aren't listed there yet.

The names below were taken from the announced list of speakers for the Asian Festival of Children's Content 2010.

Australia

Christopher Cheng

• Homepage

Sally Heinrich

• Homepage

John Danalis

• • Flyer via Booked Out

• Information posted at Booked Out

Lynette Thomas

• Biography

  • Lynette is known to many of us as she used to be at Bookaburra Books with Cheryl Hum. Now she's working with Asia Bookroom in Australia.

Canada

Rukhsana Khan

• • Homepage - there is so much information available here -- re her books, articles, speeches, recommended books for children, especially books about Muslim children.

Japan

Holly Thompson

• Homepage

Naomi Kojima

• Biography

  • Review of her picture book, The Singing Clams

India

Atanu Roy

• Article on Atanu Roy

Paro Anand

• Homepage

Anushka Ravishankar

• • Biography on the Frances Lincoln publisher's website

  • Article about her in The Horn Book, a prestigious US children's book journal, 2006

  • Interview by Book Trust (UK)

  • Article about her on LiveMint.com & The Wall Street Journal, 2007

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  • See inside Excuse Me, is this India? - via Google Books

Malaysia

Margaret Lim

• Wikipedia entry

  • Interview posted on Feng Feng Hutchins's blog, Feb. 2009

Philippines

Carmelita C. Ballesteros

• Her blog - Celebrating Children's Literature

• Article on the Paper Tigers website

United States

Uma Krishnaswami

• Homepage