Title: Pinkoo Shergill Pastry Chef
TG: Children 8-12 years (and young at heart adults!)
Publisher: Scholastic
Pinkoo Shergill has a dream. He wants to be a pastry chef! But it’s the worlds biggest secret. You see, his Papaji believes that boys shouldn’t step into the kitchen or cook or bake. In fact, Papaji wants Pinkoo to become a shooting champ. Ack! But when the Great Junior Bake-a-Thon comes to town, Pinkoo has to come up with a WOWMAZING plan to make sure his blabbermouth cousin, Tutu, doesn’t vomit everything to Papaji, win Nimrat–the Most Annoying Girl on the Planet–over and win the baking competition. Pheww!
Author ProfileVibha Batra is a Chennai based author, graphic novelist, advertising consultant, poet, lyricist, translator, playwright, travel writer and columnist. She has published 17 books including The Secret Life of Debbie G (a graphic novel) Merry the Elephant’s Rainy Day, Bathinda to Bangkok, The Reluctant Debutante, The Dream Merchants, Keeping it Real, Euro Trip, Ludhiana to London, Glitter and Gloss, The Activist and The Capitalist, Sweet Sixteen (Yeah, Right!), Seventeen and Done (you Done!), Eighteen and Wiser (Not Quite!), Family Crossword, A Twist of Lime,
Tongue in Cheek, and Ishaavaasya Upanishad: Knowledge and Action. She has worked on national brands like ICICI Bank, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Aditya Birla Group, Times Group, Murugappa Group, GRT Jewellery, Lotte, Lee, Cavin Kare, to name a few. Her travelogues have appeared in The Hindu, Conde Nast Traveller, Deccan Chronicle, and The Week. Several of her short plays have been staged during the Short and Sweet Theatre Festival South India. One of her plays was staged on the occasion of GST Day in Chennai. She wrote the Hindi lyrics for Thuppaki and has written the anthems for leading corporate houses like The Chola Group, Murugappa, Brakes India, GBS India, and Cavin Kare. She has contributed short stories and poems to the Chicken Soup series,
international anthologies, print magazines and ezines. She conducts creative writing workshops for children and adults at the British Council Chennai. She has been invited as a judge at renowned schools and colleges, and as a speaker at literature festivals and leading corporates. Her Sweet Sixteen trilogy published by Penguin has been optioned for screen adaptation by a leading production house.
Shots of author vibhy batra, who has launched her third book the morning after for janani sampath story-Express/P.Ravikumar
