Icky, Yucky, Mucky at Bookaroo

Calling all Delhites! Go EEW and EEEKS with the author Natasha Sharma and the brilliant editor at Zubaan, Anita Roy, for a rib tickling, disgusting dramatised reading of Icky, Yucky, Mucky!

And if that’s not enough, we may just throw in an icky, yucky and truly mucky song AND give you a chance to make your very own splotchy monsters!

AT BOOKAROO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH

4:00PM AT THE CRAFTY CORNER 

SANSKRITI ANANDGRAM

MEHRAULI GURGAON ROAD

For more details on the festival, visit www.bookaroo.in

Icky-ing up some schools and bookstores

A big thank you to schools and bookstores that have opened up their venues for Icky, Yucky, Mucky! events over the last few months. The most recent author appearance for a reading of Icky, Yucky, Mucky! at the lovely West Wind school in Mumbai had a delightful group of children go EEEW! With rain pounding the pavements, the setting was rather perfect for an Icky story reading!

The American school in Mumbai was a similar delight with a wonderfully interactive reading. Every child had something to say, and most claimed to have an Icky, Yucky or Mucky person in his or her family and friends. The children also enjoyed quizzing the author on whether she remembered the text by heart since there were bits when she didn’t refer to the book during the reading. She luckily got the thumbs up after the children held the book in their hands and crosschecked whether the story was narrated verbatim! The reading ended with each child trying on the Maharaja’s turban.

Treasure Books in Bandra, Mumbai was another great venue for a reading and a splotch monster activity. With a full house here, it was lovely to have parents and children join in the fun and then browse the bookshop.

For more pictures, click here

Child magazine goes Icky, Yucky, Mucky!

Grab a copy of the July issue of Child magazine to read a 4 page excerpt from Icky, Yucky, Mucky! We’re delighted that they featured the book in their wonderfully put together magazine alongside all the other interesting articles. A big thank you to everyone at Child.

Fishy Fingers

With the monsoon rains playing truant in India, we are feeling a bit like fish out of water! With fishes in mind and wishes for big drops of rain, we had some children put their fingers to good use. The ‘what you need list’ is rather simple here. A paper, pots of poster paint and lots of little finger tips. Newspapers to lay out, tissues and aprons would be good too!

SImply draw out your fish or other aquatic creature. Then dip your fingers into the paint to dot on, swirl around and mush up. And parents, do have a go too!

Phut-Phut paper print

There is nothing Maharaja Icky loves more than a good mess. You should look at his tablecloth after a meal. It’s the spottiest thing around. Here’s how we copy the messy design using bubble wrap, or phut phut paper as some of us like to call it.

What you need to get started:

• Old newspaper for covering up your floor
• Sheets of plain paper to print on
• Poster paints in 2-3 colours
• Bubble wrap
• Paint brush

Let’s get dotty!

Cut the bubble paper into pieces about 5”x5”. You’ll need one piece for every colour you want to use.

Take one piece of the bubble paper and paint one poster colour onto the side with the bubble dots.

Turn it around and print the spots onto the plain piece of paper. Continue with the other colours you want to use.

There you have it – a dotty, spotty, colourful paper that you can create stuff with! You could even print this onto old newspaper to create colourful recycled gift-wrap.

Here is one fishy scene we created for a card with out phut phut print.

Splotchy, Scary, Monstery artwork by children

We’ve been burping our way through Mumbai and Delhi over the past few months now and have been delighted to have so many children join us at the readings everywhere. At the end of the reading, we often give the children an opportunity to create their very own Splotch monsters.

They get a paper with either a colourful splotch of paint or some body parts drawn in by the illustrator of the book, Anitha Balachandran. Armed with markers, crayons and a really big imagination, children have amazed us with the variety of monsters they’ve come up with! We caught a few on camera and have set up an online gallery hosted on the Icky, Yucky, Mucky facebook page.

Do click on the link above, browse, comment, caption…be amazed!

Favourite characters and genie wishes in DNA YA!

An interview with the author featured in DNA YA newspaper in Mumbai this weekend. Click on the picture to read about her favourite character in the book, what Maharaja Icky would wish for if he met a genie and a lot more thoughts on writing.

 

We were delighted to see Icky, Yucky, Mucky mentioned in an interview with Richa Sethi, an organiser of the recent Junior Writer’s Bug festival in Mumbai, as her five year old’s current favourite book.

An Icky, Yucky, Mucky cake…yummy!

A site called Playing By The Book recently held an Edible Book festival and invited entries from the world over. Now in case any of you are wondering what an edible book is…well…it’s an edible creation inspired by a book.

And in their gallery of wonderfully creative entries that had us almost drooling over the keyboard, check out Entry number 29 – AN ICKY, YUCKY, MUCKY CAKE that looks wonderfully true to character!

Now that you have inspiration for a chocolatey Icky, Yucky, Mucky cake and some Maharaja Moochh cupcakes that we posted earlier, you might want to start planning your very own Icky, Yucky, Mucky birthday or tea party! And if you need some ideas for activities, you can browse through our Yucky Art, Icky recipes and let your imagination go wild. We in the meantime are working on some more wonderfully messy ideas!

The cake shown was created by Raashi Malhotra Sawhney of the Picnik Basket in Mumbai. To order yourself one and for other yummy ready to serve food, desserts and confectionery, contact her on 9987687005, 9321954055, thepicnikbasket@gmail.com.

Fingerbowl Sherbet

The Maharaja of Ickhtarpur loves to drink up the water in his fingerbowl. With temperature soaring across many parts of India, here is our version of a fingerbowl sherbet to cool off with.

Ingredients

• A cup of clean drinking water
• Three tablespoons of rose sherbet (add more to your taste)
• 4-5 mint leaves
• One lemon, cut into quarters by an adult
• One bowl, the size of a fingerbowl

Let’s mix and squish!

Pour the rose sherbet into the bowl.

Tear up the mint leaves, add them into the bowl and squish them with a spoon

Pour in the water.

Squeeze a few drops from a quarter of the lemon into the bowl and then throw in the quarter.

Our icky fingerbowl sherbet with a squeezed out lemon and bits of food floating around is ready!

Lift and drink up!

Icky, Yucky, Mucky at the Junior Writers Bug festival in Mumbai this weekend, April 22nd

Join us for a dramatised reading of Icky, Yucky, Mucky! by author Natasha Sharma this Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 at 12:30pm as a part of the Junior Writers Bug Children’s Literature Festival.

Venue: St. Anthony’s High School, Chembur, Mumbai

To register, please visit the writers bug site.