Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: August 6, 2019 9:09:41 am
Duckbill’s hOle book series aids children to transition from picture books to independent reading of longer text
With 22 books in the series, over one lakh copies have been sold, an impressive figure for an indie publishing house in India.
In Susie Will Not Speak, Susie decides not to talk after boys in the park tease and call her Thoothie, for she has a lisp; and in The Shy Supergirl, Nina is given the task of finding a silver owl that has disappeared from the neighbour’s house. Many such simple and everyday stories feature in the hOle book series, published by Chennai-based Duckbill Books. They are meant for children transitioning from picture books to independent reading of longer text. Each book in the series has a hole on the right-hand corner. “Die-cut books are nothing new; we think why the hOle captured kids’ imagination was partly its sheer pointlessness and the fact that the illustrations play with the hole,” say publishers and founders Sayoni Basu and Anushka Ravishankar, in an email interview. With 22 books in the series, over one lakh copies have been sold, an impressive figure for an indie publishing house in India. Excepts from an interview with Basu and Ravishankar:
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