![]() Little i is a symbolic representation of the mathematical imaginary number, a little hat-tip to the self and a small but extremely important alphabet who keeps wanting to assert herself as the writer spins a witty and playful pictorial fable around her. Little i is the latest instalment from Namjoshi’s imaginarium-a clever, whimsical and “stroppy little character" who is actually a runaway computer programme from an earlier book, Beautiful And the Cyberspace Runaway. “They wanted Aditi to come to them and so I wrote Aditi And the Thames Dragon." It was often such odd twists that caused the series to grow, and the places that Namjoshi visited, along with the things she liked-computers and the cyberspace, for example-wound their way into the books. There I was in front of a sea of brown faces in a school in London and all the children were thrilled to see me because I looked like them and I had also written a book about a character who was just like them," she recalls. ![]() The second Aditi book also happened by chance after Namjoshi went for an event to the Blue Gate Fields Junior School in London, UK. ![]()
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