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For a feast of books
K.N. MURALI SANKAR
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Parents and children had the time of their lives at the Book Festival.
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PHOTO: CH. VIJAYA BHASKAR
Ssh! I’m reading: At the Anatomy stall
The sunset was reflecting on the cover pages of hundreds of books on display at the 19th annual book exhibition organised by the Vijayawada Book Festival Society on the sprawling Swaraj Maidan. Kids, who came along with their parents, became the cynosure of all eyes among the crowd, as they continued to pester their parents till they got their favourite titles and compact discs.
Favourites
“You promised me to buy ‘Tenali Raman’ CD in this exhibition,” seven-year-old Kavya reminded her mother while entering the exhibition. She dragged her to the stall where the CDs were being displayed in a computer monitor. Besides ‘Tenali Raman,’ the class three student of Nirmala Convent in the city chose two more CDs on short tales from Ramayana and Telugu teasers.
Besides CDs, models of human anatomy, cartoon strips, comics and Harry Potter series were the most sought after by school children at the book fair. ‘Chandamama,’ the well-known multilingual monthly magazine for children, opened a stall in the exhibition.
“Parents are keener than children to visit our stall,” said Murthy, the stall manager, accepting annual subscriptions from a few visitors.
At the stall displaying models of human anatomy, parents tried to convince their wards. “This is useful to you only when you study medicine. But now, you can’t understand the purpose of this model,” M. Satyanarayana, a parent from Gandhi Nagar said to convince his six-year-old son Pradeep, who wanted his father to buy the model of a skull. The boy got convinced only when the shopkeepers interfered and told him that the models were not for convent students.
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