Agarwal Deepa

Puffin Lives: Rani Laxmibai

The Valiant Queen of Jhansi

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Produktbeschreibung

A little girl, Manikarnika, with an uncanny sense of her own destiny, grew up to be none other than the brave queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 76g
• ISBN-13: 9780143330844
• ISBN-10: 0143330845
• Artikelnr.: 42358010

Autorenporträt

Author, poet and translator, Deepa Agarwal grew up in the pristine Kumaoni region set in foothills of the Himalayas. She writes for both children and adults and has over fifty published books to her credit, including Puffin Classics: Chandrakanta and Listen, O King! Five-and-Twenty-Tales of Vikram and the Vetal. A frequent contributor to magazines and journals in India and abroad, she has edited, compiled and contributed to several anthologies. Among other awards, she received the NCERT National Award for Children's Literature in 1993 for her picture book Ashok's New Friends, while her historical fiction Caravan to Tibet was on the 2008 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List. Her works have been translated into several Indian and foreign languages. For more information, you can visit her website: www.deepaagarwal.net.