Team Kitaab is in conversation with author Mandira Shah where we spoke about her latest release, Muniya’s Quest a children’s book published by Talking Cub 2024, and the inspiration behind it.
Mandira Shah is a part-time writer and enjoys stories that take readers on adventures that are far from the humdrum. She likes to write the kind of adventures she’d love to get lost in. Mandira Shah’s debut novel Children of the Hidden Land was awarded the Binod Kanoria Awards (Young Adult), Valley of Words Awards (Young Adult) and shortlisted for the AutHER Award.
Team Kitaab is in conversation with her as we talk about her latest release, Muniya’s Quest (Published by Talking Cub, 2024).
About Muniya’s Quest
Muniya learns the shocking truth of her birth—that Abbu is not her father at all, and he found her, abandoned, in a train. Determined to trace the birth parents she has never known, Muniya ends up in the village of Vishnnupur. Here, she befriends Gopi, an inventor with an arsenal of gadgets. And the kind-hearted and talkative animal rescuer, Aaliya.
The children find out that the only person who holds the clue to the identity of Muniya’s mother is a mysterious Manik Ghosh, and they need to trace him. Travelling by bus and train through the countryside, the three friends encounter all kinds of people and animals, including a conman magician, ruthless poachers, a thief with a heart of gold, and a frightened pangolin.