To Market! To Market!

To Market! To Market!

Anushka Ravishankar & Emanuele Scanziani

Tara Publishing, Ltd.

No. 38GA, Shoreham, V Avenue, Besant Nagar, Chennai--600 090 India

8186211993, $16.95 www.tarabooks.com

Written by East Indian children's poet Anushka Ravishankar and illustrated with stunning paintings award-winning artist Emanuele Scanziani, To Market! To Market! is a picturebook following an Indian young girl's shopping trip--looking at and thinking of all the dazzling goods in the Indian marketplace, she wonders what she is possibly going to buy. Presented and bound in an unusual format (the spine needs to be held horizontally instead of vertically while savoring the story), To Market! To Market! superbly blends singsong nonsense verse with amazing illustrative attention to detail. "Jangle Jangle Jangle I'm a bangle-holding stand / Nosy nosy nosy I'm a posy, I smell grand / Faster Faster Faster I'm a rooster, I can fly / Creeping creeping creeping I am peeping, I'm a spy"