Leaf People

While spending the summer vacation at their grandmother’s home in the hills, Nikoo and her younger brother Zubin spot a fantastical leaf creature and decide to get to the bottom of it.

But a mystery is hard to solve when you’re too busy quarrelling over a goat!

The plot thickens when Zubin suddenly disappears. Has the leaf creature whisked him away? And is there more to a goat than meets the eye?

Chatura Rao writes stories for children and articles about the goings-on in the world. Her picture books, Gone Grandmother and The Sweet Shop Wars, have won literary prizes. She lives in a quiet suburb of Bangalore, occasionally leaving it to help young people write their own stories.

She hopes her readers will spot the magic in the ordinary, long after they grow up!