November 17, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors. This page is updated every Sunday. For current issue Click here Enriching youthful minds MY five-year-old daughter Mini cannot stop chattering for even a moment. From the time she came into this world, it took her hardly a year to acquire the gift of language, and thereafter she has not wasted a single moment of her waking hours in silence.... ARTICLES: A wide choice A FEW years ago, long after both my daughters had graduated from college, we decided to clear out their childhood books. There were illustrated fairy stories, nature books and encyclopaedias,... ARTICLES: Recapturing gems of Urdu THE classic defines itself by surviving. A classic survives because generations of people still revel in it and hold on to it as a repository of their past. One thing that... ARTICLES: The books I grew up on PEOPLE always ask me if, as a writer, I loved writing as a child. The answer may surprise you: I hated writing and always thought I was no good at it.... ARTICLES: Childhood reading I GREW up in a house full of books. They were everywhere, and much as my punctilious mother would like to put them in some sort of order, more would... ARTICLES: Magazines for the young IT’S time to bid farewell to timeless characters like Umro Ayyar, Amir Hamza, Alladin, Mulla Nasiruddin, Ali Baba, Toat Batoat and all kinds of neeli, peeli, hari parian living in Koh-e-Kaaf.... ARTICLES: Year of the (Peter) Rabbit HELEN Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s book, The tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in 1902, making this year the story’s 100th anniversary.... ARTICLES: Reviving the classics MEETING Shafiq Naz of Alhamra is an enriching experience. For one, it dawns on you that a publishing house cannot be run on ‘business as usual’ lines. It takes more than... ARTICLES: Books with a purpose CHILDREN and education — the words could almost be synonymous. Looming large in the world of educational publishing is an institution with a personal commitment known as The Book Group (BG).... ARTICLES: For the sake of education THE success story of one of Pakistan’s leading publishing houses, Ferozsons, started 107 years ago in Lahore. The idea to educate the Muslim children of the subcontinent through publishing books was... ARTICLES: An unending process IN keeping with its mission of promoting excellence in research and scholarship, the Oxford University Press has been publishing worldwide. OUP Pakistan has been producing not only a wide range of... ARTICLES: Textbooks: the medium IT is ‘so far so good’ for Ushba Publishing International since its launch, about one and a half years ago. In this short span of time it has brought out 26... ARTICLES: Breaking fresh ground THE cost of printing children’s books locally is accepted by many publishers as a far from lucrative business for their publication house. As compared to general books, children’s books need to... AUTHOR: The child in him SUFI Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum was one of the most attractive personalities I have known. He comes alive in my memory whenever I think of him, and that is perhaps true of... AUTHOR: Reading the child NO doubt a child’s mind is moulded and begins to take shape during the first years of its life. Like a sponge, a young child’s imagination will readily absorb any type of appealing information it gets. The books that children listen to when they are infants and toddlers always... AUTHOR: Positive images: Imrana Maqsood IMRANA Maqsood does not find writing for children laborious or gruelling at all. Within her there is a child — alive and kicking. “When I write, I become a child.” Not only that, she gets very close to her characters. “I get into them.”... AUTHOR: Joy of writing AMINA Azfar wrote her first story for children while “fooling around with a pencil and a piece of paper. I think I just wanted to write something and since there were... AUTHOR: Championing peace: Fauzia Aziz Minallah ARTIST, designer, cartoonist and writer, Fauzia Aziz Minallah has an innate desire to “reach out” to children. Warm, dedicated and a mother of two small boys, she is very vocal in... AUTHOR: Style & style FOR Rumana Husain, a graphic designer by qualification from the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, Karachi, her stint with the pen started after she had helped found the Book Group... AUTHOR: Do children read books? CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that books make good companions while they enrich the mind and the personality of the reader. In spite of the advantages they offer, books are not known to be exactly popular in our society — the educated section which is equipped with the reading skills, of course.... REVIEW: Going online THE Internet journalist is a book which deals with the whole spectrum of issues that affect online journalism, a new genre that is slowly taking its place in the media world. The author, Kamal Siddiqi, is a Pakistani... REVIEW: Save the birds THE internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and naturalist Robert Bateman’s Birds is a lavishly illustrated and informatively written account based on a personal birding odyssey and a life time commitment to conservation.... REVIEW: Meeting each other’s needs SHARING similar democratic values and a political tradition unbroken by dictatorship, India and the US would appear to have a sound basis for a long-lasting partnership. Moreover, India has much to... REVIEW: Adding more gloss ONE of the more anodyne features of life is the existence of corporate promotional brochures. Any large, sprawling multinational worth its accountancy cunning will produce one. A “socially conscious corporate” address,... REVIEW: End of non-violence THE centenary celebrations of the NWFP this year have generated renewed focus on the province’s fateful and arduous journey into contemporary history. The book under review sheds light upon the nationalist... REVIEW: Answers to big questions ZADIE Smith’s novel creates a London crammed to bursting with eccentric characters that remain just the right side of caricature. The answers to big questions of immortality, religion and identity are...

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