Ashok Rajagopalan


Ashok Rajagopalan is an Indian 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 Kickstarter campaign to fund a comic he was co-creating with the artist Asvin Srivatsangam entitled Neelakshi:The Quest for Amrit.
will be published by end of 2013.
He will be working on Yali Dream Creations' first novel with a tentative title 'Kandiva'.

Selected bibliography

Authored:
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