write the favourite characters in the story Petu Pumpkin written by Arundhati Venkatesh written
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Children's author Arundhati Venkatesh's childhood was straight out of a Ruskin Bond story — climbing trees with friends, a house with a sprawling garden, a haunted house, a fish pond and a lot more. The author went to school in five towns and worked in four continents. Everywhere she went she liked making up stories. Now, she puts them down on paper which later become bestselling children's books. Her character Petu Pumpkin is quite popular among kids and her books have won her several accolades. Her books Petu Pumpkin Tooth Troubles won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2015 for India, Middle East and Asia, Junior Kumbhakarna won the RivoKids Hindustan Times Parents and Kids' Choice Award in 2014. Her book Bookasura: The Adventures of Bala and the Book-Eating Monster is about an imaginary monster however, she insists that the idea came from her childhood experiences. When she's not busy writing stories, Arundhati can most likely be found in the corner of a bookstore or library in Bengaluru.Let's see what the author has to say about her writing journey, herself and what inspires her the most. Excerpts from an interesting conversation:
When did you first decide to become an author?
It was something I had always wanted to do but I didn’t realise it was children’s literature that I wanted to write. Back when I was a kid, there were only a couple of Indian children’s books (in English), so the thought never occurred to me. While in college, my roommate and I joked about writing a romance set in India — India’s first Mills & Boon novel. It was a decade later when I was working in London that I discovered the world of children’s literature and then there was no going back.
Tell us more about your childhood.
I had a lot of time to daydream and make up stories, climb trees, form secret societies and get up to all kinds of antics with friends. For nine out of fourteen school-going years, my house was within walking distance of the school. For five years, we lived in a colonial bungalow in the Western ghats, next door to a haunted house. To reach school, I had to go down a ravine and across a stream. Sometimes, I’d see wild horses or reptiles along the way. It took me seven minutes, three if I ran. At home, we often had snakes, hoopoes, hornbills and langurs as visitors. It was straight out of a Ruskin Bond story. Summer holidays were spent with grandparents. That’s how the setting for Bookasura came about. The house with the sprawling garden, the fish pond and the well — all that existed. Only the monster is made up!