Description

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Discover PERSEVERANCE with Janaki Ammal, the first Indian woman botanist.

Discover what the word ‘perseverance’ means through the story of Janaki Ammal, the first Indian woman botanist.

This board book biography features simple text written in verse and colorful illustrations.

This simple text written in verse is the perfect way to introduce little readers to BIG VALUES.

About the Author

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Annada Menon is a published illustrator based in Pune. She is specialised in painting from CKP, College of Fine Arts, Bangalore. She has worked on various editorials, album art and children's books.

Pervin Saket is the author of the novel ‘Urmila’ and of the poetry collection ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’. She is the 2021 Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, and was shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2020. Her novel has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Her work has been featured in ‘The Indian Quarterly’, ‘The Joao-Roque Literary Journal’, ‘Paris Lit Up’, ‘Singapore Unbound’, ‘Usawa Literary Review’, ‘Tiferet’, and elsewhere. Pervin works as an editor for textbooks for primary, middle and senior school