Uma Krishnaswami is the author of three folktale collections and two picture books, as well as readers, middle grade and YA short stories, and stories and poems in Highlights for Children and magazines in the Cricket group.

My Books

Picture Books

CHACHAJI'S CUP
illustrated by Soumya Sitaraman, 2003, Children's Book Press

MONSOON
illustrated by Jamel Akib. 2003, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Traditional Story Collections

SHOWER OF GOLD: GIRLS & WOMEN IN THE STORIES OF INDIA
1999, Linnet Books

THE BROKEN TUSK: STORIES OF THE HINDU GOD GANESHA
1996, Linnet Books.
1997 Scientific American Young Readers Award.

STORIES OF THE FLOOD
illustrated by Birgitta Saflund; 1994, Roberts Rinehart.

Readers

HOLI
2003, Children's Press/Grolier.

HELLO FLOWER
illustrated by Winifred Barnum-Newman. 2002, Bebop Books/Lee & Low

YOGA CLASS
illustrated by Stephanie Roth. 2001, Bebop Books/Lee & Low

Short Stories in Anthologies

"Going to Kashi," in SOUL SEARCHING
edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino. 2002, Simon & Schuster.
Junior Library Guild selection

"The Gift," in PERIOD PIECES
edited by Kristen Embry Litchman and Erzsi Deak. 2003, HarperCollins

Middle-grade novel

NAMING MAYA
2004, Farrar Straus & Giroux

For more information on Uma's books, writing projects with children, online writing classes, school and community presentations, links to South Asian, writing, and other resources, visit Uma's website at www.umakrishnaswami.com