Run, pull, play, draw … these people are always on the move, rendered in the Warli style of tribal art. It introduces basic verbs to the young reader through a series of brilliantly drawn pictograms, which illustrate the verb and tell a story. Warli art is done by people belonging to a tribal community that lives in Maharashtra, in western India.
The book has been silkscreen printed and bound entirely by hand in Chennai in South India – under fair conditions, of course. In this local workshop a book becomes an art work: The white colour printed on recycled paper evokes the earth walls of the Warli houses.

Press reviews

»Unique and assiduously crafted book.« Publishers Weekly

The artists

Ramesh Hengadi (*1974) and Shantaram Dhadpe (*1965) belong to the indigenous Indian Warli tribe. They live in the Thane District in the state of Maharashtra. Both practised traditional Warli painting since childhood and later made it their profession. On the suggestion of the Indian publisher Gita Wolf the two artists present the everyday life in paintings exclusively for this book.