A million! A great thousand! A thousand thousands! We found out  that there was no word for million in Old English simply because its speakers had no great use for it! Well, we're glad that the word million was coined, because here we are, on the other side of #RaceToAMillionReads. 

First of all, a big THANK YOU to our amazing community across the world for being such an integral part of what we do. It's your stories, your translations and your unwavering belief that all children should have access joyful stories that have helped us celebrate so many milestones. Without your support and goodwill we wouldn't be where we are or having so much fun doing what we do!

We hope you continue to support us on our journey to find more ways to provide equitable access to stories in mother tongue languages for all children. 

See you at... two million? A billion? A trillion? 

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At StoryWeaver we're always looking at features we can add to the site that will help our community! 

Searching for the one 

Tags are descriptive keywords you can add to your story to help people find your content. You can now add tags to the stories you create on StoryWeaver. Here's how.

Step 1: Create your amazing story from here.

Step 2: When you're ready to share it with the world, click on Publish.

Step 3: On the story details page you will now find a box for tags. See the screenshot below. 

Step 4: Enter as many tags as you like, separated by commas.

Step 5: Publish your story!

Adding tags to your already published stories

If you'd like to go back and add tags to stories you have published in the past, all you need to do is

Step 1: Log in

Step 2: Go to your Profile.

Step 3: Click on 'My Published Stories' 

Step 4: Click Edit.

Step 5: Once you're in the creator, click on 'Publish' again 

Step 6: Follow the same steps outlined above.

Step 7: Click Publish. 

So, the next time you're creating on StoryWeaver, don't forget to play some tag! It will help others discover and enjoy your creation.

Have a story you've created on StoryWeaver that you'd like us to know about? Share it on Twitter or Facebook and tag us! 

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Soumya Menon is an animation filmmaker and illustrator trained at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She likes to travel often, and try her hand at other occupations such as painting walls. Soumya shares how she took Reeti from 'Reeti and Mithu' from a rough sketch to a young girl bursting with colour. You can follow Soumya on Twitter, Instagram and her blog.​

I wanted to set the initial scenes for this story indoors- in small, confined spaces, to try and draw a parallel between Reeti being trapped indoors (as she's moping at home during the summer holidays) and Mithu in his cage.

In the last series of images towards the end of the story, I wanted to introduce a sense of flight and movement, as Reeti returns to school and her friends (not mentioning Mithu and what happens to him as I don't want to give away the ending here!)

 

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