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by Zal Whitaker (Author), Prabha Mallya (Illustrator)
He was a superstar in the world of animals and birds. He was friends with kings and queens and many Important People. Nehru and Indra Gandhi. And he went to London and Germany and all those kinds of places. He knew big-big people and went to big-big places, said everyone.
Zai's uncle is the famous 'birdman of India' Salim Ali, everyone in her family is a birding expert, and she herself can't so much as identify the pipit sitting right under her nose. In this delightful portrait of childhood, Zai Whitaker recounts her early birding woes and how she winged it. Prabha Mallya's pictures pick up the humor, and are an arresting collage of a bird-filled Bombay of the past, and a troubled little girl with a 'superstar' uncle!Author Biography
Prabha Mallya is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator who works out of her studio on a secret island populated with cats and flightless birds. Maoo and the Moustaches is her other book with Tulika. Zai Whitaker grew up in a family of naturalists. She has written novels, stories and poems for children--including Andamans Boy, The Humongoose Family, and Kanna Panna. She lives and works at the Madras Crocodile Bank, near Chennai, which she helped "Snake Man" Rom Whitaker set up almost 40 years ago.
