Neela Vaswani

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Neela Vaswani is an American writer of Indian extraction. She was born on 11 September 1974 in Port Jefferson, New York. She narrated the audio version of I am Malala and won a Grammy for this in 2015. [1] [2] She lives in New York City. She is the founder of the Storylines Project, which she did with the New York Public Library. [3]

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Reviews about her work

Deborah Stevenson who is editor for Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books at Johns Hopkins University Press wrote in her review that "While a few spreads digress less usefully, albeit playfully, it's that emphasis on varying perspectives that makes this valuable, since kids in all kinds of places will benefit from the prompt to reexamine their surroundings through fresh eyes." [7]

Maryn Wheeler who work at Brigham Young University wrote "Vaswani easily captures the intricacy of perspectives in this vivid yet simple picture book. The first-person point of view draws the reader in and challenges them to see what she sees." [8]

Kirkus Reviews said, "While readers may be prompted to wonder how a photo series taken by an actual child photographer might have differed, Vaswani’s debut picture book is an elegant and playful look at perspective, photography, and a familiar (to many) cityscape." [6]

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References

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  2. "9 Artists Who Made India Proud by Winning Grammy Awards". The Better India. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 "The Rumpus Interview With Neela Vaswani". The Rumpus.net. 11 August 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  4. "New book focuses on the work of Silas House". The Times-Tribune.com. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. Kumar, Anu (13 January 2015). "After Jhumpa: Six books of Indian diaspora fiction". Scroll.in. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. 1 2 THIS IS MY EYE | Kirkus Reviews.
  7. Stevenson, Deborah (2018). "This Is My Eye: A New York Story by Neela Vaswani (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 72 (1): 43. doi:10.1353/bcc.2018.0622. ISSN   1558-6766. S2CID   201740547.
  8. Wheeler, Maryn. "This Is My Eye: A New York Story". Children's Book and Media Review. 40 (2). Retrieved 5 July 2024.