The Beginning
Sarpa and Siṃhī: The Beginning Illustrated children's edition
When a great storm separates a young lioness from her pride, she runs through the rain and the lightning until she finds shelter in a cave. In the darkness, she meets a wise serpent — and the serpent begins to tell her a story.
This volume contains two complete stories. The first is a picture book, illustrated on every spread. The second moves into chapter book territory — the language deepening, the illustrations stepping back, the story beginning to carry its own weight.
Its language is simple. Its questions are not.
For readers of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, Richard Adams's Watership Down, and the old Indian fables themselves.
For ages 5 and up, or as young as a child likes to listen.
The Becoming
Siṃhī: The BecomingA literary novel in thirteen books · The complete English edition
When a great storm separates a young lioness from her pride, she runs through the rain and the lightning until she finds shelter in a cave. In the darkness, she meets a wise serpent — and the serpent begins to tell her a story.
Sarpa and Siṃhī: The Beginning is written for children and for the people who read to them. Because some stories are written for children and arrive like a gift for the adult holding the book.
Its language is simple. Its questions are not.
This volume contains two complete stories. The first is a picture book, illustrated on every spread — original black-and-white drawings accompanying each page of the young lioness Siṃhī as she finds her way through grief and fear toward courage and home. The second moves into chapter book territory — the language deepening, the illustrations stepping back, the story beginning to carry its own weight.