Story Weaver Bytes

15,000 storybooks in 200 languages!  We, at StoryWeaver, are super excited that we now have over 15,000 storybooks in 200 languages on our platform!  This month, we have added more storybooks in languages like, Marwari, Surjapuri, Korku and Tibetan. We also added 80 stories across nine indigenous Mexican languages, and among them are stories in Chocholteco, which are the first written records to be published in this language in over a decade!  Here’s a massive THANK YOU to our amazing translator community! Your faith has helped us reach this milestone, which we believe is the first of many more! Translating stories into indigenous languages   The Ranchi Admin Office (Jharkhand, India) reached out to us recently, to collaborate with them to translate stories into indigenous languages like Kurmali, Sadri, Mundari and Kurukh. The project went so well that the NITI Aayog, a policy think tank of the Government of India, tweeted about this initiative!

StoryWeaver's first comic book! In other news, StoryWeaver's first comic book, Making Friends with Snakes (But From a Distance), written and illustrated by wildlife cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty and published by Pratham Books, is now available in 7 Indian languages - Marathi, Hindi, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Konkani. The book will soon be translated into Bengali and Odia too. You can read the book in all these languages here.

Community Corner The community has been wowing us with their stories recently. We love The Big, Bad Kurattai, written by Abhi Krish and illustrated by Anastasiya Ivanova, about an errant child, a bowl of dumplings and a mystery! The story was written in celebration of Singapore's Tamil Language Month 2019. You can read the Tamil version of the story here.