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Welcome!
We will keep you posted on the latest and greatest related to the Little Loka Series right here! So stay tuned!
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Investing in our future – our first donations! :)
It’s one thing to talk about investing in two amazing young leaders in India with money from the sale of our first book – Maya & Leela Present: Dances of India. It’s quite another feeling and...
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Playlist Extravaganza
Ok, so it’s not so much an extravaganza as it is…well…an awesome playlist. Or at least an initial attempt at one, ha! Since Maya and Leela’s first adventure involves learning about the various...
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Elephant characters of color?
So far we are thrilled and blessed to have received lots of wonderful feedback and reviews for our first multicultural children’s book – Maya and Leela Present: Dances of India! Shameless, indeed! YET...
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Board Books, Picture Books, And Those Sticky Fingers
I recently ventured down into the basement, Arjun’s unofficial play space, only to find him sitting in the midst of about 17 red, blue, and yellow balls he had strategically removed from his ball...
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Change Is…
It has been quite a while since we last surfaced with news, updates or anything! We apologize for those of you who love to hear from us. You are welcome for the rest of you! The theme for this summer...
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Making “Dances of India”, Part 1
Greetings, readers! This is Alyssa, the Illustrator of “Dances of India”, writing to you all as we begin some new and exciting transitions. Our Little Loka will now be sending out regular newsletters...
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New Year, New Activities
It’s New Year’s Eve and the last minute preparations for 2015 are underway! And that includes Our Little Loka! We’re getting the next round of all-new content together for you and your little dreamers...
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Can more multicultural children’s literature = less racism?
Let’s start with the good news first. It looks like there was a slight uptick in the number of books by and about people of color in 2014, specifically – Africans and African Americans, Asians/Asian...
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Making “Dances of India”, Part 2
We left off with testing out the style of both the characters and the individual pages. But what about actual story? Malini and Kyra had a solid draft of the script but weren’t sure how they wanted all...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Elephants, Children’s books and Race
As you might be able to tell from our book and characters – Maya and Leela, we love elephants. Even those bigger, tricky figurative elephants in the room like say- race. Headlines abound ranging from...
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Sanjay’s Super Team’s Big Step for Diversity
Nowadays, in the animation industry, the short film that goes ahead of the feature gets just as much attention as the main event. But none has gotten so much attention as “Sanjay’s Super Team”. Short...
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