“I wish I was a
writer”, sighed Wisha.”
‘Well, you are Wisha Wozzariter,’ said the Bookworm.
‘So I am! But I don’t quite know where to begin.’
‘At the beginning, of course,’ said the Bookworm, rolling his eyes.
Ten-year-old Wisha wishes to be a writer. When she meets Bookworm, she stops wishing and starts writing. With him, she rides on the Thought Express to the Marketplace of Ideas, the Bargain Bazaar and the Circus of Bad Form. Together, they encounter a motley crew of characters, from a purple mouse scared of her own shadow to a shifty villain.
Along the way, Wisha discovers the creative process by which anything beautiful and lasting is created, a process in which Faith, Luck and Destiny play no mean part.
Roger Dahl’s zany illustrations bring Wisha’s imaginative world to life. Join Wisha on this rollicking writer’s adventure and find out how she finally fulfils her dream of becoming a writer!
Wisha Wozzariter
Publisher: Penguin Randomhouse / 2013
“This is a clever little story, which will appeal to children who already write quite well and would like to write even better. Those who need a little Inspiration might find it here. Entertaining and full of witty dialogue. Never a dull sentence.”
~ RUSKIN BOND, PADMA BHUSHAN
“The genius of author Payal Kapadia and her pocket-sized creative writing storybook, Wisha Wozzariter, is the manner in which she has transformed such a drab subject into a wonderful,
colourful, absorbing book.”
~ SAMINA MISHRA, DEEPAK DALAL & JAYA BHATTACHARJI ROSE, JURY, CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD 2013
“Wisha has exactly what a writer needs.
Plenty of heart and nerves of steel!”
~ MICHAEL HOEYE, Author of The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures
“A story for readers of all ages.”
~ JAPAN TIMES
“The book is not only a must-read, but also for keeps.”
~ BUSINESS WORLD MAGAZINE
