To Market! To Market!To Market! To Market! Anushka Ravishankar & Emanuele Scanziani Tara Publishing, Ltd. No. 38GA, Shoreham, V Avenue, Besant Nagar Coordinates: Besant Nagar is one of Chennai's most elite neighbourhoods, named after the famous lady theosophist Annie Besant, and adjoins the Theosophical Society. , Chennai--600 090 India 8186211993, $16.95 www.tarabooks.com Written by East Indian East In·dies Indonesia. The term is sometimes used to refer to all of Southeast Asia. Historically, it referred chiefly to India. East Indian adj. & n. Noun 1. 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 sing·song n. 1. Verse characterized by mechanical regularity of rhythm and rhyme. 2. A monotonously rising and falling inflection of the voice. adj. Monotonous in vocal inflection or rhythm. nonsense verse with amazing illustrative attention to detail. "Jangle Jangle Jangle I'm a bangle-holding stand / Nosy nos·y or nos·ey adj. nos·i·er, nos·i·est Informal 1. Given to prying into the affairs of others; snoopy. See Synonyms at curious. 2. Prying; inquisitive. nosy nosy I'm a posy, I smell grand / Faster Faster Faster I'm a rooster rooster its crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329] See : Dawn rooster symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] See : Virility , I can fly / Creeping creeping creeping I am peeping, I'm a spy" |
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