Ashok Rajagopalan (also known under the blogging pseudonym Kenny Wordsmith) is an

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writer and artist for over 500 children's books. Rajagopalan has also worked as a graphic designer, freelance cartoonist, and has contributed to the children's magazines ''Impulse Hoot'' and ''Impulse Toot''. He first began illustrating children's stories with a piece in the 1989 magazine ''Junior Quest''. Before working in illustration Rajagopalan received a mechanical engineering diploma and worked as a marketing executive, but found that he disliked the experience. In 2011 he participated in a

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campaign to fund a comic he was co-creating with the artist Asvin Srivatsangam entitled ''Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit''.
Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit
will be publishe
Yali Dream Creations
by end of 2013. He will be working on

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' first novel with a tentative title 'Kandiva'.

Selected bibliography

Authored: *''Witchsnare'' - Penguin India *''Iliad Retold'' - New Horizons *''Odyssey Retold'' - New Horizons Illustrated & Authored: *''Sketch with Ashok Raj'' - a series of 3 books - Scholastic India *'' Gajapati Kulapati'' - Tulika Publishers *''Gajapati Kulapati Kalabalooosh!'' - Tulika Publishers Illustrated: *''Eecha Poocha'' - Tulika Publishers *''Andaman’s Boy'' - Tulika Publishers *''Sunu sunu Snail'' - ''Storm in the Garden'' - Tulika Publishers *''Birdywood Buzz'' - Tulika Publishers *''That’s My Daddy'' - Scholastic India *''Jataka Tales'' - Scholastic India *''Marine Life'' - Scholastic India *''The Runaway Peppercorn'' - – Tulika Publishers *''Grandma’s Eyes'' - Tulika Publishers *''Dosa'' - Tulika Publishers *''A Silly Story of Bondapalli'' - Tulika Publishers *''The Shining Stones'' - Tulika Publishers *''Dancing Bees'' - Tulika Publishers *''Thakitta Tharikitta Bouncing Ball'' - Tulika Publishers *''4 books in the Thumb Thumb Series'' - Tulika Publishers *''Black Panther'' - Tulika Publishers *''The Spider’s Web'' - Tulika Publishers *''Gasa Gasa Para Para'' - Tulika Publishers *''India’s Olympic Story'' - Tulika Publishers *''Read Aloud Stories'' - Tulika Publishers

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