Atanu Roy - The Puffin Book of Magical Indian Myths

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First published in Puffin by Penguin Books India 2007
This paperback edition published 2015

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Text copyright Anita Nair 2007
Illustrations copyright Penguin Books India 2007

Cover illustration by Atanu Roy

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ISBN: 978-0-143-33384-5

This digital edition published in 2015.
e-ISBN: 978-9-351-18353-2

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Anita Nair is the author of the best-selling novels The Better Man, Ladies Coup, Mistress and a short-story collection, Satyr of the Subway. Her childrens books include The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends; Adventures of Nonu, the Skating Squirrel and Living Next Door to Alise. Her books have been translated into over twenty-six languages around the world.

Visit her at www.anitanair.net

Atanu Roy has illustrated over a hundred books for children and adults and has won many national and international awards for picture book design, illustrations and cartoons. The Puffin Book of Magical Indian Myths is his first major picture book assignment as well as the first time he has illustrated myths. Illustrating this book was like doing fifty separate books, he says. He has composed and rendered the artwork as paintings, incorporating classical styles of painting and architecture, and varied fauna and landscape as part of the art. He says, I have avoided the stereotype as far as possible and interpreted each story as only a story without any glorification or religious connotations. To the consternation of many it took me about five years to complete the book. Maybe I could have done better if I had more time!

He can be reached at atanuroy1@rediffmail.com