Storybook Favorites from Past Semesters

Here are my favorite stories from the storybooks. Each of the titles is a link to the story so you can read more!

Sitapedia

Sitapedia is a page dedicated to Sita, written in the style of a 2000's era fan blog. I found it really interesting because the style of the writing in the story is clearly from the internet-era, but the original story and character are from a far earlier time period. I liked how the author thought to make Sita into a modern celebrity by writing a gossip column, showing diary entries, and making a merch store in the introduction. The introduction really set the tone for what to expect from the story, and I thought it was really well put together and outside the box thinking.

Merch is for sale on the Sitapedia blog! (Source: Sitapedia Intro)

Karma: The Good Place

This storybook is is an Indian Epics take on The Good Place, a TV show about the afterlife where characters are in a heavenly utopia. I personally like the TV show, which is why I was first drawn to look at this storybook. The adaptation to the Indian afterlife, and Karma is a really good idea. I liked the use of images throughout the story - the overall layout and imagery of this storybook was my favorite of them all. I also thought the use of a script was a good idea, and it helped me imagine the characters better as the story played out.

Celestial Weapons in the Star Wars Universe

This storybook is all about how Star Wars could include weapons and missions like the ones in the epics studied in the class. I am a big fan of Star Wars, and I liked the storytelling of the Author and their work to include music and pictures to build suspense for the story. I thought the style was distinct because they made the story more of their own, rather than sticking to the exact plot of the particular stories they read. I think this was a really good way to integrate the epics into a modern story, and Star Wars was a good choice because the societies and planets in the movies are similarly foreign concepts to us, just like these epics from India.