Quick Response Code

Here is the QR Code for Akshay Sharma. QR code is the quick response code - a kind of barcode that can be read by a machine like a barcode reader or even a smartphone - there's an app available with which one can read this code. You can create the QR code for your own name too for free on the Internet. The QR code was invented by Toyota for tracking vehicles, but now it used everywhere in marketing. The most common is when you scan the QR code on a product for example, it converts it into the url of the website of that company, so that you don't have to type it into the web browser.

I am sure you love this Akshay!

Look into Archy's eyes

Archy has had a haircut and this is how he looks now. Akshay would tell his mom "Mummy look into Archy's eyes whenever you feel sad. Archy posed with unblinking eyes for this picture as if Akshay is telling him not to blink.

10 Facts about Comic Books

This information loaded graphic has amazing facts about the comic book industry. Akshay would have loved to read it. I am sure his friends will love going through it too.

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Raw Wrestlers

Akshay made this Powerpoint presentation with pictures and bios of his favourite wrestlers.

Vanya and the Plum

The Plum is a short story by Leo Tolstoy that I once related to Akshay on his visit to Hyderabad

Here is the illustration of that story. The little boy is Vanya who eats the plum without telling his mum. Everyone thinks he has swallowed the seed and get worried.

The Boat

Here is another lovable story from Vladimir Suteyeev- The Boat. Ekalavya Publications has reprinted this  book in Hindi. The Flip book is available on the web. Click on the link given below to read the book.  You will surely enjoy it. This story emphasises team work and cooperation to fight the odds.

Rediscovering the stories we read in our childhood for our children brings great joy, I discovered. 

http://www.eklavya.in/index.php/flip-books-2/book/20-nav-chalee/4-picture-story-books?tmpl=component

Childhood Memories

I stumbled upon the wonderful and witty world of Vladimir Suteyev yesterday on the Internet. It took me back to my childhood days. He was an amazing storyteller, and his picture books were an essential part of our childhood. I loved going through these pictures books as a four- five year old. These pictures are from a story called Uneven Wheels.

Five friends try to make wheels for a wagon but end up with different sized wheels which are useless for the wagon. But their hard work and efforts are not wasted as each one comes up with an inventive use for his wheel. Beautiful  illustrations bring out the theme of waste not, want not.

The cock uses the wheel for a watermill, the hedgehog makes a pushcart, the fly makes a spinning wheel...

What fun they all end up having!
Akshay would have loved it.