Supriya Kelkar & Ani Bushry Auction Their Graphic Novel, Off The Cuff

Supriya Kelkar and Ani Bushry have auctioned off their semi-autobiographical center grade graphic novel, Off The Cuff, about an Indian-American lady in small-town Michigan within the ’90s, a time when turning into part of the melting pot is without doubt one of the main beliefs, who learns to cease making an attempt to mix in and to make new pals and discover her voice.

Kaylan Adair at Candlewick received the world rights to Off The Cuff, and publication is deliberate for spring 2026.

Winner of the New Visions Award for her center grade novel Ahims, (Tu Books, 2017), Supriya has labored on the writing groups for a number of Hindi movies, together with Lage Raho Munna Bhai and Eklavya: The Royal Guard, India’s entry into the 2007 Academy Awards. Supriya’s books embrace Ahims, The Many Colors Of Harpreet Singh (Sterling, 2019, illlustrated by Alea Marley – the Michigan Great Read for 2021), American As Paneer Pie, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2020, (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2020) Strong As Fire, Fierce As Flame (A 2022 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Book, 2022 Global Read Aloud Selection, and Read Across America choice, Tu Books, 2020), Bindu’s Bindis (Sterling, 2021, illustrated by Parvati Pillai), That Thing About Bollywood (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2021 – a Parents Magazine Best Book of 2021), Brown Is Beautiful (FSG, 2022, artwork by Noor Sofi),  My Name (FSG, 2023, artwork by Sandhya Prabhat), and The Cobra’s Song (Simon & Schuster, 2023). She is herself the illustrator of Jyoti Rajan Gopal‘s American Desi (Little, Brown, 2022) and Raakhee Mirchandani‘s My Diwali Light (Little, Brown, 2022), and the author-illustrator of Shine (Candlewick, 2024).

Ani Bushry graduated from the University of West of England , and her background is in each graphic design and illustration. She has labored for shoppers together with NPR, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, the Maldivian NGO Arc, Yes We Can Foundation, and has labored on creating illustrations, character designs for animations, and content material for each advertising and marketing campaigns and social consciousness campaigns, specifically central round youngsters.

Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency represented Supriya Kelkar for the Off The Cuff deal, and Christy Ewers on the CAT Agency represented Ani Bushry.

In 1992, Candlewick Press, established in 1992 and situated in Somerville, Massachusetts, opened its doorways as an impartial youngsters’s writer and stays an impartial writer right now. As a part of Walker Books Group, Candlewick Press enjoys a singular possession construction which incorporates greater than 75 of the staff of their US workplace, employees in our UK and Australian places of work, plus greater than 150 authors and illustrators. Founded by Sebastian Walker, who launched Walker Books from his spare bed room in his London residence in 1978, Candlewick Press opened with solely six staff and now has 100. the place she works on every thing from image books to young-adult novels.