These images start talking to each other and following their own inherent logic. On being asked for the nth time about her affinity with the fable, Namjoshi elaborates once again: “What the writing starts off with is an image, and a set of lines. 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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