Paper Tigers | South Asian children's literature resource

Paper Tigers focuses on literature for young readers in the Pacific Rim and South Asia. Check out the web resources, articles, links and other Pacific Rim Voices literature projects.

Paper Tigers website runs a bimonthly update. In October/November 2010 this focuses on Children's Literature from India and the Indian diaspora and the many ways in which it has changed over the years. Nowadays, the children's literature being produced in India includes much more than just stories and folktales rich in morals and traditions. The output of its writers and illustrators in a variety of genres and in a plethora of languages reflects India's complex and ever-changing multilingual society. They also break through and go beyond long-standing gender, cultural and social stereotypes.

The unique challenges and opportunities Indian children's book creators face–or those in the diaspora writing about India–help create what one of our interviewees poetically calls the "rainbow-coloured horizon" of Indian children's literature.

PaperTigers is part of PacificRimVoices, a family of websites and real-life projects that celebrate literary voices from and about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. PacificRimVoices promotes books and reading as a means to achieve greater understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this region. Besides PaperTigers.org, the family includes the Kiriyama Prize and the online literary magazine WaterBridge Review. Visit the PacificRimVoices website to find out more!