Humour With Mario Miranda (Learning to Be)

Discover the joy of HUMOR through the life of Mario Miranda, one of India’s funniest cartoonists. This simple text written in verse is the perfect way to introduce little readers to BIG VALUES.

The Learning TO BE series features biographies in verse about interesting South Asian pioneers and achievers. With beautiful illustrations and a graphic timeline, these are true stories that will both entertain and inspire young readers! It can be read aloud to toddlers and preschoolers (2–4 year olds) or read independently by emerging readers (4–7 year olds).

Pervin Saket is the author of the novel ‘Urmila’ and of the poetry collection ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’. She is the 2021 Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, and was shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2020. Her novel has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Her work has been featured in ‘The Indian Quarterly’, ‘The Joao-Roque Literary Journal’, ‘Paris Lit Up’, ‘Singapore Unbound’, ‘Usawa Literary Review’, ‘Tiferet’, and elsewhere. Pervin works as an editor for textbooks for primary, middle and senior school

Devika Oza is an illustrator. She believes illustration brings us closer to the enchanting world of stories and enjoys bringing different characters to life in her illustrations. The various emotions that a character can portray fascinate her. Placing them in indigenous and alien environments is a challenge she loves to face. When she’s not drawing, Devika loves to dance, read romance books and watch action movies