Books with author Shane Natasha

Here's the perfect guide book for children to one of India's most popular games, cricket! The Good Indian Child's Guide series takes things that are intrinsic to India and presents a tongue-in-cheek exploration of the subjects. What makes you a 'good' Indian child (or adult) while playing cricket? Dive into this book for Natasha Sharma's crazy humour! Playing cricket will change forever!

King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitanish. The only problem with this simple task is that this particular corpse is home to Betal—an impish storyteller of a vampire with tricks up his sleeve. Betal gives the King a series of riddles to solve as he rides along on the King’s back. If King Vikram solves the riddle, but forgets to speak his answer aloud, the vampire will continue to haunt him—spoiling his plans for innumerable riches! Nobody is quite as foolish as King Vikram and Betal runs circles around the poor man, quickly turning him into a royal punchline. Stories like this one of Vikram and Betal date back over a thousand years and in Vikram and the Vampire, Natasha Sharma brings the classic story to life in a hilarious and modern retelling. Children from eight to eighty will enjoy the tale of a dimwitted king and the tongue-twisting, punning vampire who is destined to outsmart him.

Secrets, Lovers & Lies is a controversial love story about an evil conspiracy. Michael, a former priest of German ancestry, falls in love with a Jewish girl whose family suffered in the holocaust. His budding romance flounders many times. Eventually, their polarized families learn of their relationship and try to intervene as a history of their religions unfold. When Michael finds out that his family has involved him in their secret life, he experiences an emotional trauma. This story generates laughter and tears through its characters, which includes Dr. Ling, a humorous Chinese psychologist; a southern nymphomaniac; Miss. Kravitz, a comic little old landlady; and the bigoted students in the high school who are part of the Ku Klux Klan. Secrets, Lovers & Lies, which takes place near Boston, is a powerful and entertaining story of love, hate, humor, and anger by interweaving the nonfiction of religious history and government with comedy and sex to create a most unusual fiction form.

Meet Squiggle curious, confused and determined to tell a comma from an apostrophe! Squiggle is confused. She doesn t know quite what she is! So she sets off through the pages of a notebook in search of answers. Is she a comma or colon? A question mark? Surely not an exclamation! Splash, run, bump, trip and swing with her until she finds her own kind. Natasha Sharma s delightful text introduces young readers to the correct way to use punctuation in this deliciously comic tale. The book also includes a section with pointers on punctuation, interesting facts from history, and mayhem brought about by incorrect punctuation. Once you re through with Squiggle, you ll never misplace that comma again!

Squiggle has been doodlenapped! She finds herself stuck inside a dictionary with another doodle called Doodle Dude who speaks in poorly constructed, fragmented sentences. The only way out is to make bridges using well-constructed sentences! Will they be able to construct a ladder long enough to get them out? Book 2 in the Squiggle series, adventures in the English language, co-published with Young Zubaan The first book (Squiggle Takes A Walk) introduces punctuation while this one teaches how to properly construct sentences through an adorable recurring character and other fun characters Written by bestselling children s author Natasha Sharma An interactive educational tool for teachers and parents Includes 20 pages of activities for kids to test out their new skills Illustrated, large-print format appeals to younger children