CRAYON

CAMERA

Written and Illustratedby Shreyansh Agarwal

‘Crayon Camera’ Original text, design and illustration in English by Shreyansh Agarwal.

Printed by Kolor Kode

Published by Srishti PressSrishti School of Art, Design and Technology,P.O. Box No. 6430, Yelahanka New Town,Doddabalapur Road, Bangalore - 560 106.T: +91 80 40447000

Shreyansh Agarwal designed this book on ‘growing up’ as a student of the Storybook Lab at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. Run by Matt Lee and Krupa Thimmaiah, the aim of this lab has beento re-evaluate stereotypical notions of creating books for Indian children, that make reading enjoyable, meaningful and inexpensive.

Copyright © Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology 2012Illustrations Copyright © Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology 2012

All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form orby any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.

Written and Illustrated by Shreyansh Agarwal

CRAYONCAMERA

Written and Illustrated by Shreyansh Agarwal

Chintu wishes he has a camera.

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He wants to remember how the sky and the tree looks right now!

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He scratches his headand wonders what to do.

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At his doorstep he sees Ajji drawing,What a good idea! Maybe he can draw the tree?

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Akka says the leaves don’t look like that.He asks her to look at them again.

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Amma tells him the tree is too tall to be real.He reminds her that it has to be taller than his crayon.

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Chintu rushes back outside to seeif his drawing looks like a photo.

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But the sun is about to set.He takes out his orange crayon to fill in the sun.

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By the time he finishes,the sky and the tree have become darker.

There are stars and the moon in the sky.Now he must draw them as well.

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Chintu’s drawing looks magical.It has the sun, the moon and the stars.Could a camera have captured them all?

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Chintu really wants to take photosbut he does not have a camera.Can he find something more magical?

M.R.P. ` 20.00