About the Author | Adithi Rao graduated from Smith College, USA, with a degree in Theatre, and returned to India to work as an assistant director on the Hindi film Satya. Shakuntala & Other Timeless Tales from Ancient India is her first book for children. Growing Up in Pandupur is her second. Over the years, her short stories for children have appeared in anthology collections published by Penguin, Scholastic, Puffin and Zubaan. Chatura Rao is an award-winning journalist and an author. Her books for children and adults have been published by leading publishing houses like Penguin, Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Puffin, Ladybird, Young Zubaan and Tulika. Her most recent books are A Blueprint for Love, for adults, and Gone Grandmother, a picture book for children. Chatura teaches creative writing to children at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, in summer. Devika Rangachari is a children s writer with several award-winning books to her credit. Her book, Queen of Ice (Duckbill), was on the White Ravens list of the best children s books from around the world in 2015. She is also currently engaged in post-doctoral research in gender history. Jane De Suza is a leading humour writer; her latest books Happily Never After and SuperZero and the Clone Crisis have both been ranked among most memorable books. Her earlier books include the detective-comedy The Spy Who Lost her Head and the best-selling SuperZero series for children. Jane is a management grad from XLRI, has been Creative Director at leading advertising agencies across India, and writes for publications across the world. Former journalist Lubaina Bandukwala turned into a children s writer (books published by Pratham, FunOK Please) and editor (Time Life, TOI, DNA, Scholastic India) for a simple reason. Now she can read as many children s books as she likes and call it grown-up work! She also curates children s literature sessions at the prestigious Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai and has founded her own Children s Literature Festivals Peek A Book and Fully Booked (with First Mum s Club and Kids Club). Payal Dhar has written books for young adults, and short stories for both big and little people. She s also a freelance editor and writer, and writes on computers, technology, books, reading, games, travel and anything else that catches her interest. Nalini Sorensen is a children s author, whose books include The Star That Saved the Day, Dada s Useless Present, Alphabet Dress-up and Number March. She is a co-author of Gifts of Teaching and Memories from the Road, and has written readers for schools in India, and stories for children s magazines. Nalini grew up in Mumbai, but currently lives in Melbourne with her husband and two sons. Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator who has written 14 books. These include Wordygurdyboom! (Puffin Classics, 2008); The Fried Frog and other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems (Scholastic, 2009); her translation of the Selected Poems of Joy Goswami (Harper Perennial, 2014); and her book-length sequence of poems, Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins, 2015). Shabnam Minwalla has spent most of her life with words editing her school magazine, working as a journalist with the Times of India and writing non-fiction. But what she most enjoys is writing books for children. Her first book, The Six Spellmakers of Dorabji Street, was critically acclaimed and won the Rivokids Parents and Kids Choice Awards. Her second book, The Strange Haunting of Model High School, has been published by Scholastic. Sowmya Rajendran has written books for children of all age groups, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi s Bal Sahitya Puraskar for her novel Mayil Will Not Be Quiet in 2015. Sowmya currently works with The News Minute. |