Lucky Girl is a hilarious book. It’s imaginative, wacky and full of surprises. Sumi is a lucky girl. With her pink bed, a window that overlooks the sea, soft toys and a chef for a mother, she must be a lucky girl, right?
Wrong.
As I chuckled my way through this hOle book written by Shabnam Minwalla and illustrated by Tanvi Bhat, I knew I had to work with it at my reading programme! Here are a few things I plan to do with the book.
Funny recipes
Pammi Gupta makes pumpkin peel muffins and furry leaf parathas for Sumi. Yuck! What kinds of things would you put together to make an imaginative meal? Would you eat the things you can see on the cover of the book? Once you know what the ingredients are, would you still eat them?
Poetry
Sumi takes part in a poetry writing competition organised by Fab Foods. Her friend Priya wants to write one kind of poem while she wants to write another kind. Can you write a short poem about some food that you like?
What’s in a name?
Depending on what recipe book Pammi Gupta is writing, she calls her daughter Sumangali something else.
Baby Dim Sum. Sumacaroni. Sushi.
I’m waiting for the children to play with their own names and come up with new and funny name extensions!
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