The Patua Pinocchio is a fresh and exciting visual interpretation of the well-known story of the puppet who longs to become a boy. Swarna Chitrakar, Patua scroll painter from West Bengal, visualizes the tale in her own idiom-drawing on popular Indian iconography, which depicts children as nothing less than divine. In the process, she effortlessly transforms this children's classic into a universal tale.
| ISBN: | 9789383145126 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2014 |
| Author: | Carlo Collodi |
| Illustrator: | Swarna Chitrakar |
| Publisher: | Tara Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 188 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic Literature |
The Patua Pinocchio is a fresh and exciting visual interpretation of the well-known story of the puppet who longs to become a boy. Swarna Chitrakar, Patua scroll painter from West Bengal, visualizes the tale in her own idiom-drawing on popular Indian iconography, which depicts children as nothing less than divine.
The Patua Pinocchio features in the following genres: Classic Literature
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The Patua Pinocchio was written by Carlo Collodi and published by Tara Books
The Patua Pinocchio has 188 pages
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