The Fried Frog and Other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems
- Publisher : Scholastic India
- Publishing year : January 2009
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9788184772852
- Imprint : Scholastic
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
Have you ever heard of fabulous beasts that are garbage trucks? Have you ever met a person called Shampoo who talks in f ...
Have you ever heard of fabulous beasts that are garbage trucks? Have you ever met a person called Shampoo who talks in frothy bubbles? Have you ever wondered whether sails are happy or surly? Have you ever ridden a word balloon or seen a blue heron? If you haven't, here's your chance! The Fried Frog is full of all kinds of strangeness, hilariousness and seriousness.
Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist, translator and children's author with thirteen books to her credit. The novel Land of the Well (2012) and Selected Poems of Joy Goswami (2014)-her translation of the poet's work-were published by HarperCollins. Her books on poetry include The Scorpion (Harper21, 2013), Absent Muses (Poetrywala, 2010), The Fried Frog (Scholastic, 2009) and Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi, 2008). Her collection of short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love, was published by Penguin in 2013. Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology of women's writing in English, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu. She was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, Canterbury.