Moongphali

Nandu wants to go to his school fancy-dress competition dressed as a king, but his mother makes him wear a foolish-looking watermelon costume instead.Dolly and Sunny areeading a happyife as a pair of genius twins, till they wish for their clones.All Poonam wants is the perfect pair of blue and white slippers and she finds them too, except that they belong to someone else.Sher and Samandar are best friends till a piece of mysterious rock turns them into sworn enemies.Meet these kids and many othersike them in this very delightful collection, Moongphali. Funny, adventurous, smart and mischievous, these are children from all parts of India. They speak differentanguages, eat all kinds of food,ive in homes thatook totally unlike each other— yet you will find a bit of yourself in each one of them.Relish these stories and relive your childhood with your kids.

Mukesh Chhabra is a leading casting director in the Indian film Industry.He has a special penchant for casting for children’ s films and has workedin Chillar Party, Nil Battey Sannata, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dangal. WhenMukesh is not busy making films, he can be found reading and writingchildren’ s stories, eating Punjabi cuisine or playing gully cricket.Neha Singh loves telling stories, using books, theatre and films asdifferent mediums. She has authored two picture books for children— TheWednesday Bazaar and Bela Missed Her Train— published by Karadi Tales.She also helps children and adults rekindle their imagination through herdrama-based workshops.Sonal Gupta Vaswani is an artist, illustrator and an animator, based inMumbai. She has illustrated several books for children for Fisher Price,Karadi Tales, UNICEF and Pratham.